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2021 Beaufort County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Beaufort County, NC went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 38K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.3 hours). That ranks 79th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2239th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Beaufort County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 30, 2021 19:30 | August 30, 2021 21:00 | 1h 30m | 1,846 | 1,030 |
| 2 | January 12, 2021 11:00 | January 12, 2021 18:00 | 7h | 1,769 | 5,398 |
| 3 | June 28, 2021 09:15 | June 28, 2021 17:30 | 8h 15m | 1,755 | 3,163 |
| 4 | November 18, 2021 05:15 | November 18, 2021 07:15 | 2h | 1,602 | 3,204 |
| 5 | June 10, 2021 12:45 | June 10, 2021 19:45 | 7h | 991 | 1,267 |
| 6 | January 6, 2021 01:15 | January 6, 2021 01:30 | 15m | 832 | 208 |
| 7 | July 8, 2021 20:30 | July 9, 2021 00:15 | 3h 45m | 832 | 877 |
| 8 | June 18, 2021 22:15 | June 18, 2021 23:45 | 1h 30m | 831 | 1,247 |
| 9 | January 30, 2021 16:30 | January 30, 2021 17:00 | 30m | 802 | 401 |
| 10 | August 14, 2021 16:15 | August 14, 2021 18:15 | 2h | 753 | 1,506 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 37 reached 100+ customers, 4 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 Beaufort County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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) | 2021 | 3.1 hrs | 1.39 | 2.4 hrs | 1.34 |
| Edgecombe-Martin County E M C | 2021 | 1.6 hrs | 0.94 | 1.6 hrs | 0.94 |
| Tideland Electric Member Corp | 2021 | 3.1 hrs | 1.70 | 2.3 hrs | 1.51 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Washington - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Belhaven - (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 92% of North Carolina's customers in 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 19,720 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. Beaufort County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Beaufort County, NC annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/north-carolina/beaufort-county