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2023 Sampson County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Sampson County, NC went without power for an average of 5.1 hours, a total of 99K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.6 hours). That ranks 64th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1457th 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 Sampson 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 | July 26, 2023 18:30 | July 27, 2023 17:15 | 22h 45m | 4,659 | 15K |
| 2 | January 4, 2023 17:00 | January 5, 2023 09:00 | 16h | 1,653 | 4,591 |
| 3 | August 12, 2023 08:45 | August 13, 2023 12:15 | 1d 3h | 1,327 | 5,990 |
| 4 | December 16, 2023 20:45 | December 18, 2023 13:15 | 1d 16h | 1,224 | 2,710 |
| 5 | June 27, 2023 02:45 | June 27, 2023 19:00 | 16h 15m | 1,058 | 1,861 |
| 6 | April 30, 2023 18:15 | May 1, 2023 00:15 | 6h | 1,045 | 1,503 |
| 7 | May 3, 2023 00:30 | May 3, 2023 20:45 | 20h 15m | 1,023 | 13K |
| 8 | August 7, 2023 23:15 | August 8, 2023 09:30 | 10h 15m | 1,004 | 2,039 |
| 9 | January 3, 2023 17:45 | January 3, 2023 20:15 | 2h 30m | 835 | 420 |
| 10 | September 22, 2023 22:45 | September 23, 2023 23:00 | 1d | 751 | 3,496 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 60 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Sampson 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 |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (NC) | 2023 | 3.2 hrs | 1.54 | 2.2 hrs | 1.22 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Four County Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| South River Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 19,420 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. Sampson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sampson 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/sampson-county