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2022 Northampton County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Northampton County, NC went without power for an average of 6.0 hours, a total of 36K customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1201st 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 Northampton 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 | December 23, 2022 13:30 | December 24, 2022 03:00 | 13h 30m | 2,098 | 8,480 |
| 2 | June 24, 2022 18:00 | June 24, 2022 22:30 | 4h 30m | 1,330 | 4,636 |
| 3 | March 9, 2022 20:30 | March 10, 2022 01:30 | 5h | 1,255 | 1,270 |
| 4 | April 9, 2022 20:15 | April 10, 2022 01:45 | 5h 30m | 1,253 | 2,221 |
| 5 | August 29, 2022 13:45 | August 29, 2022 17:45 | 4h | 1,235 | 974 |
| 6 | March 12, 2022 15:15 | March 13, 2022 01:45 | 10h 30m | 753 | 1,173 |
| 7 | January 1, 2022 00:00 | January 4, 2022 01:00 | 3d 1h | 657 | 3,517 |
| 8 | June 12, 2022 21:00 | June 13, 2022 07:00 | 10h | 329 | 2,220 |
| 9 | November 1, 2022 19:00 | November 1, 2022 23:15 | 4h 15m | 273 | 853 |
| 10 | October 18, 2022 12:30 | October 18, 2022 19:15 | 6h 45m | 202 | 445 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 24 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Northampton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2022 | 5.9 hrs | 2.38 | 3.2 hrs | 1.77 |
| Roanoke Electric Member Corp | 2022 | 4.0 hrs | 1.87 | 2.3 hrs | 1.56 |
| 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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 6,048 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. Northampton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Northampton 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/northampton-county