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2023 Martin County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Martin County, NC went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 30K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.6 hours). That ranks 81st worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2203rd 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 Martin 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 | November 23, 2023 07:15 | November 23, 2023 08:30 | 1h 15m | 3,194 | 2,035 |
| 2 | September 23, 2023 01:00 | September 24, 2023 01:00 | 1d | 1,459 | 8,060 |
| 3 | August 27, 2023 00:15 | August 27, 2023 22:15 | 22h | 905 | 1,259 |
| 4 | March 17, 2023 11:30 | March 17, 2023 12:45 | 1h 15m | 695 | 349 |
| 5 | July 1, 2023 17:15 | July 1, 2023 20:15 | 3h | 647 | 971 |
| 6 | July 3, 2023 17:00 | July 4, 2023 11:30 | 18h 30m | 546 | 2,185 |
| 7 | December 20, 2023 01:45 | December 20, 2023 05:15 | 3h 30m | 532 | 739 |
| 8 | July 13, 2023 19:00 | July 14, 2023 12:15 | 17h 15m | 436 | 845 |
| 9 | April 30, 2023 20:15 | May 1, 2023 05:45 | 9h 30m | 407 | 2,096 |
| 10 | September 3, 2023 22:00 | September 3, 2023 23:30 | 1h 30m | 328 | 410 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 21 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Martin 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edgecombe-Martin County E M C | 2023 | 3.4 hrs | 1.26 | 2.2 hrs | 0.96 |
| Halifax Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 5.9 hrs | 2.25 | 3.7 hrs | 1.67 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Washington - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Robersonville - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Hamilton - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Oak City - (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 ÷ 13,275 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. Martin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Martin 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/martin-county