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2023 Halifax County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Halifax County, NC went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 100K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.6 hours). That ranks 74th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1803rd 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 Halifax 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 4, 2023 21:15 | September 5, 2023 13:15 | 16h | 1,781 | 1,745 |
| 2 | May 17, 2023 21:45 | May 18, 2023 04:15 | 6h 30m | 1,705 | 4,571 |
| 3 | December 15, 2023 13:45 | December 18, 2023 18:45 | 3d 5h | 1,664 | 7,133 |
| 4 | July 3, 2023 15:45 | July 5, 2023 21:30 | 2d 5h | 1,623 | 7,404 |
| 5 | May 9, 2023 12:30 | May 11, 2023 01:45 | 1d 13h | 1,439 | 17K |
| 6 | June 27, 2023 12:00 | June 27, 2023 22:45 | 10h 45m | 1,355 | 1,080 |
| 7 | April 22, 2023 13:30 | April 22, 2023 13:45 | 15m | 1,057 | 264 |
| 8 | August 15, 2023 03:00 | August 16, 2023 04:30 | 1d 1h | 1,013 | 5,573 |
| 9 | August 7, 2023 15:00 | August 8, 2023 22:15 | 1d 7h | 891 | 11K |
| 10 | January 6, 2023 17:00 | January 6, 2023 18:30 | 1h 30m | 868 | 382 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 55 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Halifax 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 |
| Roanoke Electric Member Corp | 2023 | 2.2 hrs | 1.08 | 2.2 hrs | 1.08 |
| Halifax Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 5.9 hrs | 2.25 | 3.7 hrs | 1.67 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Enfield - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Hobgood | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Scotland Neck - (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 ÷ 28,826 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. Halifax County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Halifax 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/halifax-county