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2023 Pitt County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Pitt County, NC went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 64K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.6 hours). That ranks 93rd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2742nd 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 Pitt 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 | February 8, 2023 14:00 | February 8, 2023 18:30 | 4h 30m | 6,013 | 3,376 |
| 2 | May 21, 2023 11:30 | May 21, 2023 15:15 | 3h 45m | 3,367 | 1,717 |
| 3 | December 5, 2023 19:45 | December 5, 2023 20:00 | 15m | 3,360 | 840 |
| 4 | December 7, 2023 13:30 | December 7, 2023 15:45 | 2h 15m | 2,802 | 2,166 |
| 5 | October 24, 2023 19:15 | October 24, 2023 20:00 | 45m | 2,740 | 686 |
| 6 | November 7, 2023 13:15 | November 7, 2023 16:45 | 3h 30m | 2,404 | 721 |
| 7 | August 13, 2023 01:30 | August 13, 2023 04:15 | 2h 45m | 1,824 | 1,425 |
| 8 | June 11, 2023 11:45 | June 11, 2023 12:15 | 30m | 1,821 | 464 |
| 9 | July 5, 2023 20:00 | July 6, 2023 01:15 | 5h 15m | 1,671 | 1,461 |
| 10 | May 22, 2023 22:15 | May 23, 2023 01:15 | 3h | 1,609 | 2,627 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 54 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 Pitt 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 |
| Greenville Utilities Comm | 2023 | 35 min | 0.47 | 35 min | 0.47 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pitt & Greene Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Washington - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Winterville - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Ayden - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Farmville - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Fountain - (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 ÷ 80,606 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. Pitt County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pitt 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/pitt-county