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2022 Sampson County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Sampson County, NC went without power for an average of 9.1 hours, a total of 177K customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 799th 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 Sampson 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 24, 2022 07:15 | December 25, 2022 05:15 | 22h | 10,488 | 42K |
| 2 | January 3, 2022 11:30 | January 4, 2022 02:30 | 15h | 7,364 | 14K |
| 3 | September 30, 2022 08:00 | October 2, 2022 02:15 | 1d 18h | 4,681 | 47K |
| 4 | January 23, 2022 22:45 | January 24, 2022 01:45 | 3h | 2,973 | 6,971 |
| 5 | December 23, 2022 11:45 | December 24, 2022 04:30 | 16h 45m | 1,872 | 8,095 |
| 6 | June 14, 2022 21:45 | June 14, 2022 23:45 | 2h | 1,763 | 1,767 |
| 7 | January 25, 2022 14:15 | January 25, 2022 20:15 | 6h | 1,438 | 2,584 |
| 8 | May 7, 2022 00:15 | May 7, 2022 22:15 | 22h | 1,240 | 7,169 |
| 9 | June 29, 2022 20:30 | June 29, 2022 21:30 | 1h | 1,093 | 274 |
| 10 | August 24, 2022 12:15 | August 24, 2022 19:15 | 7h | 754 | 631 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 67 reached 100+ customers, 9 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Sampson 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 |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (NC) | 2018 | 51.3 hrs | 2.31 | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Four County Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| South River Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 19,420 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. Sampson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sampson 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/sampson-county