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2021 Pamlico County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Pamlico County, NC went without power for an average of 9.0 hours, a total of 16K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.3 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 851st 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 Pamlico 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 | October 1, 2021 09:30 | October 1, 2021 10:30 | 1h | 1,290 | 968 |
| 2 | January 6, 2021 01:15 | January 6, 2021 01:30 | 15m | 1,282 | 321 |
| 3 | July 13, 2021 13:45 | July 13, 2021 18:30 | 4h 45m | 1,109 | 1,677 |
| 4 | May 11, 2021 08:15 | May 11, 2021 11:45 | 3h 30m | 1,105 | 2,075 |
| 5 | September 17, 2021 08:00 | September 17, 2021 09:15 | 1h 15m | 1,042 | 1,303 |
| 6 | September 13, 2021 17:45 | September 13, 2021 19:30 | 1h 45m | 763 | 195 |
| 7 | July 5, 2021 19:30 | July 5, 2021 21:45 | 2h 15m | 235 | 469 |
| 8 | May 10, 2021 21:30 | May 11, 2021 00:00 | 2h 30m | 221 | 421 |
| 9 | March 8, 2021 14:15 | March 8, 2021 20:15 | 6h | 220 | 907 |
| 10 | March 8, 2021 22:15 | March 9, 2021 04:15 | 6h | 220 | 394 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 23 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Pamlico 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 |
| Tideland Electric Member Corp | 2021 | 3.1 hrs | 1.70 | 2.3 hrs | 1.51 |
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 ÷ 1,811 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. Pamlico County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pamlico 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/pamlico-county