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2021 Martin County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Martin County, NC went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 28K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.3 hours). That ranks 77th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2180th 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 Martin 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 | May 4, 2021 22:45 | May 5, 2021 08:45 | 10h | 3,278 | 4,444 |
| 2 | February 16, 2021 06:30 | February 16, 2021 13:30 | 7h | 1,703 | 2,609 |
| 3 | February 22, 2021 20:45 | February 22, 2021 21:45 | 1h | 1,207 | 1,205 |
| 4 | February 19, 2021 14:30 | February 19, 2021 15:45 | 1h 15m | 1,070 | 1,338 |
| 5 | January 28, 2021 10:00 | January 29, 2021 03:45 | 17h 45m | 897 | 3,085 |
| 6 | December 8, 2021 11:15 | December 8, 2021 14:00 | 2h 45m | 710 | 1,748 |
| 7 | May 11, 2021 01:00 | May 11, 2021 03:00 | 2h | 524 | 916 |
| 8 | July 8, 2021 20:30 | July 9, 2021 12:15 | 15h 45m | 446 | 1,059 |
| 9 | August 16, 2021 21:15 | August 16, 2021 22:00 | 45m | 443 | 332 |
| 10 | July 9, 2021 22:30 | July 10, 2021 00:15 | 1h 45m | 442 | 339 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 23 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Martin 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 |
| Halifax Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 5.9 hrs | 2.25 | 3.7 hrs | 1.67 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Washington - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Robersonville - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Hamilton - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Oak City - (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 ÷ 13,275 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. Martin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Martin 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/martin-county