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2021 Pitt County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Pitt County, NC went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 40K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.3 hours). That ranks 91st worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2814th 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 Pitt 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 2, 2021 12:15 | September 2, 2021 20:45 | 8h 30m | 2,381 | 14K |
| 2 | September 13, 2021 15:15 | September 13, 2021 16:15 | 1h | 1,697 | 1,273 |
| 3 | September 30, 2021 06:15 | September 30, 2021 09:15 | 3h | 1,455 | 718 |
| 4 | July 31, 2021 19:00 | August 2, 2021 12:45 | 1d 17h | 1,316 | 6,675 |
| 5 | August 11, 2021 19:00 | August 12, 2021 00:15 | 5h 15m | 1,017 | 1,476 |
| 6 | January 28, 2021 10:00 | January 28, 2021 12:45 | 2h 45m | 997 | 521 |
| 7 | November 7, 2021 01:30 | November 7, 2021 07:30 | 6h | 752 | 442 |
| 8 | June 14, 2021 02:00 | June 14, 2021 03:45 | 1h 45m | 674 | 1,178 |
| 9 | June 20, 2021 20:15 | June 21, 2021 12:45 | 16h 30m | 403 | 851 |
| 10 | December 2, 2021 13:00 | December 2, 2021 14:45 | 1h 45m | 403 | 403 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 22 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 Pitt 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 |
| Greenville Utilities Comm | 2021 | 32 min | 0.31 | 22 min | 0.29 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pitt & Greene Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Washington - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Winterville - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Ayden - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Farmville - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Fountain - (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 ÷ 80,606 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. Pitt County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pitt 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/pitt-county