County annual report · FIPS 37065
2023 Edgecombe County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Edgecombe County, NC went without power for an average of 3.7 hours, a total of 73K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.6 hours). That ranks 71st worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1723rd 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 Edgecombe 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 | May 22, 2023 03:15 | May 22, 2023 09:45 | 6h 30m | 4,195 | 16K |
| 2 | January 4, 2023 19:15 | January 5, 2023 00:45 | 5h 30m | 1,501 | 4,912 |
| 3 | August 15, 2023 13:30 | August 16, 2023 21:15 | 1d 7h | 1,223 | 11K |
| 4 | May 22, 2023 18:45 | May 22, 2023 19:30 | 45m | 1,051 | 695 |
| 5 | July 19, 2023 16:45 | July 20, 2023 06:00 | 13h 15m | 800 | 4,391 |
| 6 | May 9, 2023 23:30 | May 10, 2023 07:45 | 8h 15m | 727 | 3,955 |
| 7 | April 14, 2023 10:45 | April 14, 2023 19:15 | 8h 30m | 670 | 343 |
| 8 | April 1, 2023 13:15 | April 1, 2023 19:15 | 6h | 662 | 558 |
| 9 | September 22, 2023 22:30 | September 23, 2023 22:15 | 23h 45m | 620 | 4,081 |
| 10 | May 17, 2023 06:45 | May 17, 2023 12:45 | 6h | 486 | 1,767 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 32 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Edgecombe 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 |
| City of Wilson - (NC) | 2023 | 53 min | 0.69 | 53 min | 0.69 |
| City of Rocky Mount - (NC) | 2023 | 1.9 hrs | 1.59 | 72 min | 1.44 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pitt & Greene Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Sharpsburg - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of MacClesfield - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Pinetops - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Tarboro - (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 ÷ 19,560 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. Edgecombe County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Edgecombe 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/edgecombe-county