County annual report · FIPS 37137
2023 Pamlico County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Pamlico County, NC went without power for an average of 50.9 hours, a total of 92K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.6 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 103rd 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 Pamlico 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 9, 2023 21:15 | May 10, 2023 07:00 | 9h 45m | 2,825 | 25K |
| 2 | July 16, 2023 06:15 | July 16, 2023 07:45 | 1h 30m | 2,697 | 2,428 |
| 3 | April 21, 2023 11:15 | April 21, 2023 14:00 | 2h 45m | 2,677 | 7,362 |
| 4 | August 11, 2023 21:30 | August 11, 2023 22:45 | 1h 15m | 2,260 | 2,824 |
| 5 | July 25, 2023 13:00 | July 26, 2023 07:00 | 18h | 2,257 | 1,145 |
| 6 | July 26, 2023 17:15 | July 26, 2023 18:00 | 45m | 2,256 | 1,692 |
| 7 | July 27, 2023 18:15 | July 27, 2023 19:15 | 1h | 2,256 | 1,734 |
| 8 | February 20, 2023 21:45 | February 20, 2023 22:45 | 1h | 2,238 | 2,238 |
| 9 | September 22, 2023 22:00 | September 24, 2023 03:00 | 1d 5h | 2,098 | 9,712 |
| 10 | July 4, 2023 21:00 | July 5, 2023 00:15 | 3h 15m | 1,674 | 2,548 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 32 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 Pamlico 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 |
| Tideland Electric Member Corp | 2023 | 7.7 hrs | 3.49 | 4.9 hrs | 2.91 |
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 ÷ 1,811 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. Pamlico County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pamlico 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/pamlico-county