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2023 Nash County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Nash County, NC went without power for an average of 7.6 hours, a total of 199K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.6 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1065th 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 Nash 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 | August 8, 2023 00:00 | August 9, 2023 06:00 | 1d 6h | 13,209 | 85K |
| 2 | April 30, 2023 19:45 | May 1, 2023 08:00 | 12h 15m | 7,803 | 15K |
| 3 | August 15, 2023 19:30 | August 17, 2023 00:45 | 1d 5h | 2,719 | 14K |
| 4 | March 14, 2023 15:15 | March 15, 2023 03:30 | 12h 15m | 2,325 | 1,939 |
| 5 | May 1, 2023 15:00 | May 2, 2023 02:30 | 11h 30m | 1,736 | 3,522 |
| 6 | May 8, 2023 18:00 | May 8, 2023 21:45 | 3h 45m | 1,731 | 1,123 |
| 7 | July 19, 2023 16:45 | July 22, 2023 19:45 | 3d 3h | 1,578 | 15K |
| 8 | July 15, 2023 21:15 | July 16, 2023 08:30 | 11h 15m | 1,445 | 2,056 |
| 9 | August 23, 2023 10:00 | August 23, 2023 23:30 | 13h 30m | 1,339 | 4,808 |
| 10 | April 25, 2023 13:15 | April 25, 2023 20:15 | 7h | 1,297 | 640 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 66 reached 100+ customers, 14 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Nash 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 |
| Wake Electric Membership Corp | 2023 | 4.6 hrs | 2.37 | 1.6 hrs | 1.50 |
| Halifax Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 5.9 hrs | 2.25 | 3.7 hrs | 1.67 |
| City of Rocky Mount - (NC) | 2023 | 1.9 hrs | 1.59 | 72 min | 1.44 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Sharpsburg - (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 ÷ 26,243 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. Nash County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nash 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/nash-county