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2020 Wilson County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Wilson County, NC went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 109K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 85th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1862nd of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Wilson County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 1, 2020 17:15 | October 1, 2020 18:30 | 1h 15m | 25,920 | 24K |
| 2 | October 30, 2020 07:00 | October 30, 2020 15:15 | 8h 15m | 13,355 | 18K |
| 3 | November 11, 2020 15:00 | November 11, 2020 16:45 | 1h 45m | 7,963 | 5,913 |
| 4 | November 26, 2020 16:30 | November 26, 2020 17:30 | 1h | 4,135 | 1,666 |
| 5 | August 2, 2020 20:00 | August 2, 2020 20:15 | 15m | 3,975 | 994 |
| 6 | October 29, 2020 14:30 | October 29, 2020 22:30 | 8h | 3,244 | 2,001 |
| 7 | September 3, 2020 16:45 | September 3, 2020 18:00 | 1h 15m | 2,864 | 3,357 |
| 8 | June 18, 2020 18:30 | June 18, 2020 19:00 | 30m | 2,385 | 795 |
| 9 | January 13, 2020 18:45 | January 13, 2020 19:15 | 30m | 2,324 | 1,162 |
| 10 | November 25, 2020 05:15 | November 25, 2020 05:45 | 30m | 1,938 | 969 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 81 reached 100+ customers, 20 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Wilson County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Energy Progress - (NC) | 2020 | 5.2 hrs | 1.81 | 2.3 hrs | 1.37 |
| Edgecombe-Martin County E M C | 2020 | 3.5 hrs | 1.66 | 3.5 hrs | 1.66 |
| City of Wilson - (NC) | 2020 | 74 min | 1.11 | 53 min | 0.88 |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (NC) | 2018 | 51.3 hrs | 2.31 | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pitt & Greene Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Sharpsburg - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Stantonsburg - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Black Creek - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Lucama - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 91% of North Carolina's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 35,644 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Wilson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wilson County, NC annual power outage report, 2020, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2020/north-carolina/wilson-county