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2023 Beaufort County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Beaufort County, NC went without power for an average of 5.0 hours, a total of 98K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.6 hours). That ranks 65th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1487th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Beaufort County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 22, 2023 23:30 | September 24, 2023 16:45 | 1d 17h | 6,548 | 38K |
| 2 | June 27, 2023 05:00 | June 27, 2023 19:15 | 14h 15m | 4,317 | 12K |
| 3 | August 30, 2023 18:15 | August 30, 2023 19:00 | 45m | 3,428 | 1,718 |
| 4 | July 7, 2023 21:45 | July 8, 2023 03:45 | 6h | 3,087 | 2,677 |
| 5 | April 30, 2023 20:15 | May 1, 2023 05:30 | 9h 15m | 1,968 | 6,979 |
| 6 | December 17, 2023 18:45 | December 18, 2023 07:15 | 12h 30m | 1,863 | 4,701 |
| 7 | February 23, 2023 16:15 | February 23, 2023 22:45 | 6h 30m | 1,810 | 3,021 |
| 8 | July 3, 2023 18:45 | July 4, 2023 05:00 | 10h 15m | 1,300 | 3,804 |
| 9 | February 17, 2023 12:45 | February 17, 2023 13:15 | 30m | 1,016 | 508 |
| 10 | April 29, 2023 02:00 | April 29, 2023 05:00 | 3h | 906 | 1,090 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 34 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Beaufort County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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) | 2023 | 3.7 hrs | 1.47 | 2.4 hrs | 1.22 |
| Edgecombe-Martin County E M C | 2023 | 3.4 hrs | 1.26 | 2.2 hrs | 0.96 |
| Tideland Electric Member Corp | 2023 | 7.7 hrs | 3.49 | 4.9 hrs | 2.91 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Washington - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Belhaven - (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 n/a of North Carolina's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 19,720 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. Beaufort County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Beaufort County, NC annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/north-carolina/beaufort-county