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2023 Chowan County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Chowan County, NC went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.6 hours). That ranks 89th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2422nd 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 Chowan 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 | July 18, 2023 06:45 | July 18, 2023 14:30 | 7h 45m | 2,338 | 16K |
| 2 | June 27, 2023 16:00 | June 27, 2023 22:15 | 6h 15m | 1,752 | 676 |
| 3 | April 30, 2023 21:15 | May 1, 2023 15:00 | 17h 45m | 1,231 | 1,865 |
| 4 | May 25, 2023 13:45 | May 25, 2023 14:00 | 15m | 276 | 69 |
| 5 | July 3, 2023 14:15 | July 4, 2023 01:45 | 11h 30m | 230 | 446 |
| 6 | June 29, 2023 15:45 | June 29, 2023 16:00 | 15m | 113 | 28 |
| 7 | January 6, 2023 16:45 | January 6, 2023 18:45 | 2h | 110 | 181 |
| 8 | April 8, 2023 16:15 | April 8, 2023 17:00 | 45m | 88 | 66 |
| 9 | January 22, 2023 20:15 | January 22, 2023 21:45 | 1h 30m | 39 | 59 |
| 10 | December 3, 2023 14:45 | December 3, 2023 21:45 | 7h | 34 | 147 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 7 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Chowan 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roanoke Electric Member Corp | 2023 | 2.2 hrs | 1.08 | 2.2 hrs | 1.08 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Albemarle Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Edenton - (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 ÷ 12,047 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. Chowan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chowan 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/chowan-county