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2021 Carteret County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Carteret County, NC went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 128K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.3 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1761st 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 Carteret 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 14, 2021 11:45 | August 14, 2021 13:45 | 2h | 10,394 | 15K |
| 2 | January 28, 2021 07:30 | January 28, 2021 22:00 | 14h 30m | 8,398 | 32K |
| 3 | February 18, 2021 20:30 | February 18, 2021 21:45 | 1h 15m | 4,950 | 1,240 |
| 4 | May 20, 2021 20:30 | May 20, 2021 20:45 | 15m | 4,829 | 1,207 |
| 5 | September 7, 2021 18:45 | September 7, 2021 20:15 | 1h 30m | 4,188 | 4,191 |
| 6 | August 19, 2021 17:00 | August 19, 2021 22:45 | 5h 45m | 3,630 | 4,829 |
| 7 | September 11, 2021 22:45 | September 12, 2021 03:00 | 4h 15m | 2,474 | 4,289 |
| 8 | September 29, 2021 14:15 | September 29, 2021 16:15 | 2h | 2,333 | 595 |
| 9 | September 2, 2021 08:15 | September 2, 2021 09:45 | 1h 30m | 1,488 | 2,232 |
| 10 | May 22, 2021 09:15 | May 25, 2021 00:15 | 2d 15h | 1,484 | 9,119 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 60 reached 100+ customers, 16 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Carteret 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 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Carteret-Craven El Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 39,432 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. Carteret County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Carteret 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/carteret-county