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2021 Washington County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Washington County, NC went without power for an average of 4.0 hours, a total of 16K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.3 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1531st 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 Washington 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 | January 5, 2021 12:30 | January 5, 2021 12:45 | 15m | 1,793 | 448 |
| 2 | February 13, 2021 17:15 | February 13, 2021 23:15 | 6h | 1,252 | 1,186 |
| 3 | July 8, 2021 19:45 | July 10, 2021 01:15 | 1d 5h | 1,248 | 4,205 |
| 4 | June 10, 2021 02:00 | June 10, 2021 04:45 | 2h 45m | 1,005 | 586 |
| 5 | April 10, 2021 02:30 | April 10, 2021 03:30 | 1h | 810 | 411 |
| 6 | January 28, 2021 09:30 | January 28, 2021 23:00 | 13h 30m | 593 | 2,643 |
| 7 | November 8, 2021 16:15 | November 8, 2021 16:45 | 30m | 269 | 135 |
| 8 | August 2, 2021 10:00 | August 2, 2021 16:15 | 6h 15m | 204 | 175 |
| 9 | January 26, 2021 07:45 | January 26, 2021 09:30 | 1h 45m | 150 | 183 |
| 10 | December 25, 2021 16:45 | December 25, 2021 19:45 | 3h | 124 | 123 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 13 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 Washington 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tideland Electric Member Corp | 2021 | 3.1 hrs | 1.70 | 2.3 hrs | 1.51 |
| 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 ÷ 4,062 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county