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2021 Chowan County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Chowan County, NC went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 4,018 customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.3 hours). That ranks 92nd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2846th 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 Chowan 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 | April 13, 2021 12:45 | April 13, 2021 13:30 | 45m | 701 | 352 |
| 2 | February 21, 2021 15:30 | February 21, 2021 18:30 | 3h | 173 | 300 |
| 3 | June 20, 2021 19:45 | June 20, 2021 22:45 | 3h | 124 | 305 |
| 4 | September 12, 2021 11:30 | September 12, 2021 18:00 | 6h 30m | 74 | 254 |
| 5 | February 3, 2021 19:00 | February 3, 2021 23:15 | 4h 15m | 55 | 137 |
| 6 | June 5, 2021 00:45 | June 5, 2021 02:15 | 1h 30m | 52 | 78 |
| 7 | January 28, 2021 11:30 | January 28, 2021 13:15 | 1h 45m | 46 | 70 |
| 8 | March 4, 2021 14:30 | March 4, 2021 16:00 | 1h 30m | 40 | 32 |
| 9 | August 22, 2021 23:15 | August 23, 2021 01:45 | 2h 30m | 40 | 42 |
| 10 | August 8, 2021 11:30 | August 8, 2021 13:00 | 1h 30m | 37 | 56 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 3 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Chowan 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roanoke Electric Member Corp | 2021 | 3.1 hrs | 1.20 | 1.8 hrs | 0.89 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Albemarle Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Edenton - (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 ÷ 12,047 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. Chowan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chowan 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/chowan-county