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2021 Edgecombe County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Edgecombe County, NC went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 24K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.3 hours). That ranks 88th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2578th 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 Edgecombe 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 31, 2021 02:45 | August 31, 2021 05:15 | 2h 30m | 752 | 1,601 |
| 2 | July 2, 2021 12:45 | July 2, 2021 16:45 | 4h | 657 | 2,501 |
| 3 | January 27, 2021 08:00 | January 27, 2021 20:15 | 12h 15m | 585 | 1,043 |
| 4 | August 25, 2021 21:15 | August 26, 2021 05:45 | 8h 30m | 451 | 3,159 |
| 5 | August 31, 2021 13:15 | August 31, 2021 13:45 | 30m | 383 | 101 |
| 6 | April 23, 2021 01:15 | April 23, 2021 08:30 | 7h 15m | 332 | 2,324 |
| 7 | January 28, 2021 09:45 | January 29, 2021 04:00 | 18h 15m | 264 | 961 |
| 8 | April 15, 2021 19:45 | April 15, 2021 23:00 | 3h 15m | 228 | 710 |
| 9 | July 28, 2021 20:15 | July 29, 2021 05:15 | 9h | 227 | 1,161 |
| 10 | June 2, 2021 23:45 | June 3, 2021 02:15 | 2h 30m | 214 | 482 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 24 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 Edgecombe 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 |
| City of Wilson - (NC) | 2021 | 49 min | 0.64 | 41 min | 0.60 |
| City of Rocky Mount - (NC) | 2021 | 67 min | 1.11 | 67 min | 1.11 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pitt & Greene Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Sharpsburg - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of MacClesfield - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Pinetops - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Tarboro - (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 ÷ 19,560 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. Edgecombe County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Edgecombe 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/edgecombe-county