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2021 Wilson County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Wilson County, NC went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 49K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.3 hours). That ranks 86th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2522nd 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 Wilson 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 | April 17, 2021 04:45 | April 17, 2021 08:00 | 3h 15m | 2,220 | 779 |
| 2 | January 29, 2021 05:15 | January 29, 2021 16:15 | 11h | 2,086 | 3,239 |
| 3 | May 4, 2021 13:45 | May 4, 2021 23:15 | 9h 30m | 1,708 | 8,257 |
| 4 | January 1, 2021 05:15 | January 1, 2021 09:00 | 3h 45m | 1,468 | 760 |
| 5 | July 13, 2021 13:00 | July 13, 2021 17:00 | 4h | 1,353 | 5,411 |
| 6 | February 1, 2021 02:00 | February 1, 2021 03:00 | 1h | 1,239 | 1,032 |
| 7 | August 1, 2021 17:15 | August 1, 2021 21:15 | 4h | 1,179 | 2,521 |
| 8 | November 15, 2021 16:30 | November 15, 2021 17:15 | 45m | 1,124 | 283 |
| 9 | July 30, 2021 18:45 | July 30, 2021 20:30 | 1h 45m | 1,081 | 1,110 |
| 10 | May 10, 2021 12:30 | May 10, 2021 12:45 | 15m | 1,043 | 261 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 54 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Wilson 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 |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (NC) | 2018 | 51.3 hrs | 2.31 | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pitt & Greene Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Sharpsburg - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Stantonsburg - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Black Creek - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Lucama - (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 ÷ 35,644 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. Wilson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wilson 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/wilson-county