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2023 Northampton County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Northampton County, NC went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.6 hours). That ranks 77th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1845th 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 Northampton 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 1, 2023 17:15 | May 1, 2023 19:15 | 2h | 1,659 | 418 |
| 2 | July 3, 2023 19:30 | July 4, 2023 19:45 | 1d | 1,288 | 3,476 |
| 3 | July 29, 2023 18:45 | July 29, 2023 19:45 | 1h | 1,263 | 854 |
| 4 | July 8, 2023 22:15 | July 9, 2023 08:45 | 10h 30m | 1,259 | 1,119 |
| 5 | September 2, 2023 18:30 | September 2, 2023 20:15 | 1h 45m | 1,226 | 421 |
| 6 | August 15, 2023 20:15 | August 16, 2023 08:15 | 12h | 543 | 1,192 |
| 7 | January 15, 2023 11:00 | January 15, 2023 12:30 | 1h 30m | 519 | 779 |
| 8 | November 1, 2023 14:30 | November 1, 2023 16:45 | 2h 15m | 432 | 217 |
| 9 | October 21, 2023 23:45 | October 22, 2023 02:45 | 3h | 391 | 588 |
| 10 | July 5, 2023 22:00 | July 6, 2023 00:45 | 2h 45m | 379 | 569 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 21 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Northampton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2023 | 4.1 hrs | 2.06 | 4.1 hrs | 2.06 |
| Roanoke Electric Member Corp | 2023 | 2.2 hrs | 1.08 | 2.2 hrs | 1.08 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,048 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. Northampton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Northampton 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/northampton-county