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2021 Halifax County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Halifax County, NC went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 84K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.3 hours). That ranks 70th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1877th 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 Halifax 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 08:30 | January 31, 2021 22:15 | 3d 13h | 2,798 | 18K |
| 2 | August 28, 2021 18:15 | August 29, 2021 18:00 | 23h 45m | 2,051 | 4,453 |
| 3 | March 28, 2021 10:30 | March 28, 2021 18:45 | 8h 15m | 1,602 | 4,161 |
| 4 | February 18, 2021 14:45 | February 19, 2021 01:15 | 10h 30m | 1,461 | 943 |
| 5 | November 5, 2021 13:30 | November 5, 2021 15:30 | 2h | 1,164 | 999 |
| 6 | February 22, 2021 15:45 | February 22, 2021 21:15 | 5h 30m | 1,064 | 1,553 |
| 7 | August 7, 2021 17:15 | August 9, 2021 14:15 | 1d 21h | 1,047 | 2,590 |
| 8 | May 22, 2021 13:15 | May 22, 2021 16:30 | 3h 15m | 1,008 | 1,280 |
| 9 | September 20, 2021 11:30 | September 20, 2021 13:15 | 1h 45m | 846 | 1,120 |
| 10 | September 20, 2021 17:00 | September 20, 2021 17:15 | 15m | 842 | 211 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 58 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Halifax 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 |
| Roanoke Electric Member Corp | 2021 | 3.1 hrs | 1.20 | 1.8 hrs | 0.89 |
| Halifax Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 5.9 hrs | 2.25 | 3.7 hrs | 1.67 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Enfield - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Hobgood | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Scotland Neck - (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 ÷ 28,826 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. Halifax County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Halifax 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/halifax-county