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2022 Washington County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Washington County, NC went without power for an average of 7.9 hours, a total of 32K customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 921st 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 Washington 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 | August 3, 2022 23:15 | August 4, 2022 00:00 | 45m | 2,559 | 1,919 |
| 2 | December 23, 2022 13:30 | December 24, 2022 20:45 | 1d 7h | 1,722 | 12K |
| 3 | October 29, 2022 01:30 | October 29, 2022 10:00 | 8h 30m | 993 | 987 |
| 4 | February 18, 2022 14:45 | February 18, 2022 17:15 | 2h 30m | 833 | 392 |
| 5 | August 21, 2022 21:30 | August 22, 2022 04:15 | 6h 45m | 680 | 1,932 |
| 6 | July 24, 2022 08:00 | July 24, 2022 10:00 | 2h | 671 | 1,172 |
| 7 | July 29, 2022 14:30 | July 29, 2022 15:30 | 1h | 497 | 219 |
| 8 | August 3, 2022 13:30 | August 3, 2022 14:45 | 1h 15m | 497 | 621 |
| 9 | November 11, 2022 07:30 | November 11, 2022 18:15 | 10h 45m | 381 | 730 |
| 10 | September 12, 2022 08:15 | September 12, 2022 18:00 | 9h 45m | 364 | 1,570 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 26 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Washington 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tideland Electric Member Corp | 2022 | 13.0 hrs | 2.98 | 3.9 hrs | 2.31 |
| 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 ÷ 4,062 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county