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2021 Northampton County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Northampton County, NC went without power for an average of 6.2 hours, a total of 37K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.3 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1128th 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 Northampton 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 | September 20, 2021 10:45 | September 20, 2021 19:15 | 8h 30m | 2,144 | 3,759 |
| 2 | January 28, 2021 08:30 | January 30, 2021 00:00 | 1d 15h | 2,130 | 7,750 |
| 3 | August 9, 2021 17:00 | August 9, 2021 18:30 | 1h 30m | 2,085 | 2,089 |
| 4 | June 4, 2021 18:45 | June 5, 2021 00:15 | 5h 30m | 998 | 1,540 |
| 5 | May 13, 2021 21:30 | May 14, 2021 00:45 | 3h 15m | 730 | 1,237 |
| 6 | July 1, 2021 15:15 | July 1, 2021 20:15 | 5h | 728 | 730 |
| 7 | November 18, 2021 13:00 | November 18, 2021 13:15 | 15m | 568 | 142 |
| 8 | February 13, 2021 09:00 | February 14, 2021 18:30 | 1d 9h | 497 | 1,879 |
| 9 | March 14, 2021 02:15 | March 15, 2021 12:30 | 1d 10h | 464 | 693 |
| 10 | February 16, 2021 06:00 | February 16, 2021 11:45 | 5h 45m | 418 | 1,512 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 26 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Northampton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2021 | 33.7 hrs | 2.87 | 2.5 hrs | 1.43 |
| Roanoke Electric Member Corp | 2021 | 3.1 hrs | 1.20 | 1.8 hrs | 0.89 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,048 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. Northampton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Northampton 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/northampton-county