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2021 Bertie County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Bertie County, NC went without power for an average of 6.3 hours, a total of 64K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.3 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1113th 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 Bertie 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 | January 28, 2021 07:30 | January 30, 2021 00:00 | 1d 16h | 2,697 | 17K |
| 2 | July 8, 2021 20:45 | July 9, 2021 16:15 | 19h 30m | 1,111 | 4,996 |
| 3 | November 3, 2021 10:00 | November 3, 2021 12:45 | 2h 45m | 853 | 661 |
| 4 | March 19, 2021 14:30 | March 19, 2021 16:30 | 2h | 849 | 851 |
| 5 | January 15, 2021 00:30 | January 15, 2021 18:45 | 18h 15m | 824 | 1,607 |
| 6 | August 4, 2021 07:30 | August 4, 2021 10:00 | 2h 30m | 745 | 195 |
| 7 | January 31, 2021 16:45 | January 31, 2021 19:30 | 2h 45m | 559 | 1,257 |
| 8 | December 8, 2021 15:45 | December 8, 2021 22:00 | 6h 15m | 529 | 376 |
| 9 | March 19, 2021 07:15 | March 19, 2021 10:00 | 2h 45m | 505 | 1,389 |
| 10 | November 13, 2021 22:00 | November 15, 2021 15:30 | 1d 17h | 485 | 1,210 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 32 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Bertie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edgecombe-Martin County E M C | 2021 | 1.6 hrs | 0.94 | 1.6 hrs | 0.94 |
| Roanoke Electric Member Corp | 2021 | 3.1 hrs | 1.20 | 1.8 hrs | 0.89 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Windsor- (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 ÷ 10,165 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. Bertie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bertie 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/bertie-county