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2022 Beaufort County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Beaufort County, NC went without power for an average of 4.4 hours, a total of 87K customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 74th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1557th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Beaufort County, 2022
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 12, 2022 13:30 | March 14, 2022 21:15 | 2d 7h | 5,883 | 17K |
| 2 | December 23, 2022 14:30 | December 24, 2022 22:15 | 1d 7h | 3,449 | 27K |
| 3 | April 7, 2022 17:30 | April 7, 2022 18:00 | 30m | 3,337 | 1,085 |
| 4 | January 16, 2022 21:00 | January 17, 2022 17:15 | 20h 15m | 1,316 | 1,548 |
| 5 | January 22, 2022 00:45 | January 22, 2022 16:15 | 15h 30m | 1,063 | 1,377 |
| 6 | December 28, 2022 16:15 | December 28, 2022 17:15 | 1h | 1,015 | 255 |
| 7 | March 10, 2022 09:30 | March 10, 2022 11:30 | 2h | 1,008 | 1,260 |
| 8 | July 21, 2022 21:15 | July 22, 2022 05:30 | 8h 15m | 962 | 1,220 |
| 9 | September 30, 2022 08:45 | September 30, 2022 22:15 | 13h 30m | 803 | 527 |
| 10 | February 5, 2022 02:15 | February 5, 2022 07:15 | 5h | 802 | 1,614 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 51 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Beaufort County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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) | 2022 | 9.8 hrs | 2.35 | 2.2 hrs | 1.26 |
| Edgecombe-Martin County E M C | 2022 | 2.2 hrs | 1.64 | 2.2 hrs | 1.64 |
| Tideland Electric Member Corp | 2022 | 13.0 hrs | 2.98 | 3.9 hrs | 2.31 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Washington - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Belhaven - (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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 19,720 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. Beaufort County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Beaufort County, NC annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/north-carolina/beaufort-county