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2023 Wilson County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Wilson County, NC went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 45K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.6 hours). That ranks 91st worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2568th 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 Wilson 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 6, 2023 12:45 | October 6, 2023 14:00 | 1h 15m | 1,670 | 1,712 |
| 2 | January 4, 2023 21:00 | January 5, 2023 00:15 | 3h 15m | 1,631 | 1,683 |
| 3 | May 16, 2023 18:00 | May 16, 2023 20:45 | 2h 45m | 1,315 | 1,317 |
| 4 | February 23, 2023 14:45 | February 23, 2023 15:00 | 15m | 1,261 | 315 |
| 5 | August 17, 2023 17:00 | August 17, 2023 17:15 | 15m | 1,239 | 310 |
| 6 | March 17, 2023 23:30 | March 18, 2023 04:00 | 4h 30m | 967 | 2,666 |
| 7 | January 10, 2023 08:15 | January 10, 2023 08:45 | 30m | 920 | 460 |
| 8 | August 18, 2023 04:30 | August 18, 2023 06:15 | 1h 45m | 814 | 532 |
| 9 | August 8, 2023 00:15 | August 8, 2023 16:45 | 16h 30m | 785 | 3,454 |
| 10 | August 14, 2023 18:30 | August 14, 2023 22:30 | 4h | 762 | 1,967 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 55 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 Wilson 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 |
| 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 Sharpsburg - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Stantonsburg - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Black Creek - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Lucama - (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 ÷ 35,644 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. Wilson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wilson 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/wilson-county