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2022 Martin County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Martin County, NC went without power for an average of 3.7 hours, a total of 49K customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 78th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1746th 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 Martin 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 | July 27, 2022 19:45 | July 28, 2022 07:30 | 11h 45m | 2,508 | 7,854 |
| 2 | December 23, 2022 14:15 | December 24, 2022 23:30 | 1d 9h | 1,886 | 13K |
| 3 | May 20, 2022 05:45 | May 20, 2022 11:00 | 5h 15m | 1,313 | 3,878 |
| 4 | June 18, 2022 00:45 | June 18, 2022 04:45 | 4h | 956 | 1,222 |
| 5 | July 12, 2022 04:45 | July 12, 2022 06:15 | 1h 30m | 702 | 436 |
| 6 | August 30, 2022 01:45 | August 30, 2022 05:45 | 4h | 696 | 2,780 |
| 7 | May 6, 2022 21:30 | May 7, 2022 21:00 | 23h 30m | 667 | 2,897 |
| 8 | May 16, 2022 17:30 | May 17, 2022 01:30 | 8h | 637 | 1,121 |
| 9 | June 6, 2022 12:30 | June 6, 2022 16:30 | 4h | 391 | 423 |
| 10 | September 1, 2022 16:45 | September 1, 2022 17:15 | 30m | 370 | 185 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 28 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Martin 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edgecombe-Martin County E M C | 2022 | 2.2 hrs | 1.64 | 2.2 hrs | 1.64 |
| Halifax Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 5.9 hrs | 2.25 | 3.7 hrs | 1.67 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Washington - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Robersonville - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Hamilton - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Oak City - (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 ÷ 13,275 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. Martin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Martin 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/martin-county