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2023 Wayne County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Wayne County, NC went without power for an average of 8.7 hours, a total of 157K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.6 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 948th 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 Wayne 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 | October 4, 2023 17:15 | October 5, 2023 00:45 | 7h 30m | 3,410 | 12K |
| 2 | August 15, 2023 21:15 | August 16, 2023 19:15 | 22h | 3,061 | 13K |
| 3 | April 30, 2023 18:45 | May 1, 2023 08:45 | 14h | 2,464 | 6,078 |
| 4 | November 20, 2023 08:30 | November 20, 2023 12:15 | 3h 45m | 2,181 | 7,636 |
| 5 | August 28, 2023 12:45 | August 28, 2023 19:45 | 7h | 2,013 | 2,534 |
| 6 | July 15, 2023 21:30 | July 16, 2023 07:15 | 9h 45m | 2,003 | 2,513 |
| 7 | July 7, 2023 21:15 | July 8, 2023 03:45 | 6h 30m | 1,868 | 3,221 |
| 8 | May 25, 2023 11:45 | May 26, 2023 00:45 | 13h | 1,758 | 4,527 |
| 9 | January 6, 2023 01:30 | January 6, 2023 05:15 | 3h 45m | 1,752 | 4,648 |
| 10 | July 9, 2023 19:00 | July 10, 2023 08:15 | 13h 15m | 1,647 | 3,604 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 72 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Wayne 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 |
| City of Wilson - (NC) | 2023 | 53 min | 0.69 | 53 min | 0.69 |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (NC) | 2023 | 3.2 hrs | 1.54 | 2.2 hrs | 1.22 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pitt & Greene Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Stantonsburg - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Fremont - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Pikeville - (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 ÷ 18,042 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. Wayne County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wayne 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/wayne-county