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2022 Wayne County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Wayne County, NC went without power for an average of 10.7 hours, a total of 193K customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 670th 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 Wayne 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 10:00 | December 25, 2022 04:15 | 18h 15m | 19,927 | 92K |
| 2 | July 7, 2022 10:15 | July 7, 2022 20:15 | 10h | 7,340 | 1,897 |
| 3 | May 6, 2022 18:45 | May 7, 2022 22:15 | 1d 3h | 4,935 | 19K |
| 4 | September 30, 2022 16:15 | October 1, 2022 05:45 | 13h 30m | 2,594 | 9,263 |
| 5 | April 15, 2022 15:15 | April 15, 2022 23:00 | 7h 45m | 2,104 | 3,334 |
| 6 | July 14, 2022 13:00 | July 14, 2022 16:00 | 3h | 1,885 | 1,417 |
| 7 | August 23, 2022 03:00 | August 23, 2022 17:15 | 14h 15m | 1,862 | 818 |
| 8 | May 16, 2022 17:30 | May 17, 2022 02:30 | 9h | 1,541 | 5,728 |
| 9 | December 23, 2022 13:15 | December 24, 2022 06:15 | 17h | 1,266 | 5,900 |
| 10 | June 17, 2022 23:45 | June 18, 2022 20:15 | 20h 30m | 1,204 | 2,983 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 70 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Wayne 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 |
| City of Wilson - (NC) | 2022 | 3.2 hrs | 1.50 | 41 min | 0.62 |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (NC) | 2018 | 51.3 hrs | 2.31 | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pitt & Greene Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Stantonsburg - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Fremont - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Pikeville - (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 ÷ 18,042 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. Wayne County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wayne 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/wayne-county