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2021 Wayne County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Wayne County, NC went without power for an average of 3.9 hours, a total of 70K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.3 hours). That ranks 58th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1576th 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 Wayne 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 | March 19, 2021 12:00 | March 19, 2021 19:45 | 7h 45m | 7,277 | 11K |
| 2 | September 1, 2021 16:15 | September 1, 2021 22:15 | 6h | 3,551 | 2,478 |
| 3 | January 12, 2021 15:15 | January 12, 2021 23:30 | 8h 15m | 1,799 | 2,750 |
| 4 | March 27, 2021 23:00 | March 28, 2021 05:15 | 6h 15m | 1,592 | 5,406 |
| 5 | August 24, 2021 18:45 | August 24, 2021 20:00 | 1h 15m | 1,370 | 687 |
| 6 | September 29, 2021 20:15 | September 30, 2021 00:15 | 4h | 1,369 | 2,739 |
| 7 | December 10, 2021 23:15 | December 11, 2021 03:30 | 4h 15m | 1,359 | 3,277 |
| 8 | August 2, 2021 18:45 | August 2, 2021 21:15 | 2h 30m | 1,206 | 305 |
| 9 | August 31, 2021 16:30 | August 31, 2021 16:45 | 15m | 1,204 | 301 |
| 10 | June 15, 2021 09:15 | June 15, 2021 14:45 | 5h 30m | 833 | 2,721 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 67 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Wayne 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 |
| City of Wilson - (NC) | 2021 | 49 min | 0.64 | 41 min | 0.60 |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (NC) | 2018 | 51.3 hrs | 2.31 | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pitt & Greene Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Stantonsburg - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Fremont - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Pikeville - (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 ÷ 18,042 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. Wayne County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wayne 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/wayne-county