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2021 Nash County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Nash County, NC went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 60K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.3 hours). That ranks 75th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2123rd 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 Nash 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 29, 2021 23:00 | April 30, 2021 01:00 | 2h | 2,720 | 3,340 |
| 2 | January 12, 2021 14:30 | January 12, 2021 15:00 | 30m | 2,221 | 1,110 |
| 3 | December 3, 2021 13:45 | December 3, 2021 18:45 | 5h | 1,685 | 951 |
| 4 | March 28, 2021 18:00 | March 29, 2021 10:45 | 16h 45m | 1,582 | 3,961 |
| 5 | August 16, 2021 11:45 | August 16, 2021 17:45 | 6h | 1,356 | 2,519 |
| 6 | June 28, 2021 14:45 | June 28, 2021 22:15 | 7h 30m | 1,348 | 374 |
| 7 | August 4, 2021 12:45 | August 5, 2021 02:15 | 13h 30m | 1,099 | 3,127 |
| 8 | May 27, 2021 11:30 | May 27, 2021 20:30 | 9h | 980 | 623 |
| 9 | July 22, 2021 12:30 | July 22, 2021 22:15 | 9h 45m | 756 | 642 |
| 10 | July 3, 2021 07:15 | July 3, 2021 08:30 | 1h 15m | 747 | 747 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 59 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Nash 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 |
| Wake Electric Membership Corp | 2021 | 1.6 hrs | 1.14 | 68 min | 0.79 |
| Halifax Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 5.9 hrs | 2.25 | 3.7 hrs | 1.67 |
| City of Rocky Mount - (NC) | 2021 | 67 min | 1.11 | 67 min | 1.11 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Sharpsburg - (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 ÷ 26,243 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. Nash County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nash 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/nash-county