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2024 Beaufort County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Beaufort County, NC went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 61K customer-hours (North Carolina average 66.1 hours). That ranks 78th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2068th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Beaufort County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 9, 2024 19:00 | January 10, 2024 23:00 | 1d 4h | 2,487 | 26K |
| 2 | February 13, 2024 14:45 | February 13, 2024 20:15 | 5h 30m | 2,412 | 4,164 |
| 3 | September 18, 2024 07:00 | September 18, 2024 08:45 | 1h 45m | 1,654 | 2,761 |
| 4 | May 10, 2024 22:00 | May 11, 2024 10:45 | 12h 45m | 1,590 | 8,620 |
| 5 | July 8, 2024 15:00 | July 8, 2024 17:30 | 2h 30m | 1,176 | 2,354 |
| 6 | October 27, 2024 15:00 | October 27, 2024 19:45 | 4h 45m | 742 | 1,214 |
| 7 | May 23, 2024 20:00 | May 23, 2024 20:30 | 30m | 643 | 180 |
| 8 | July 14, 2024 17:15 | July 14, 2024 22:15 | 5h | 619 | 1,247 |
| 9 | September 8, 2024 22:00 | September 9, 2024 00:45 | 2h 45m | 606 | 1,515 |
| 10 | July 19, 2024 08:45 | July 19, 2024 17:45 | 9h | 503 | 1,582 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 27 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 Beaufort County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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) | 2024 | 17.2 hrs | 1.70 | 2.2 hrs | 1.22 |
| Edgecombe-Martin County E M C | 2024 | 1.9 hrs | 1.16 | 83 min | 1.00 |
| Tideland Electric Member Corp | 2024 | 4.5 hrs | 2.54 | 2.6 hrs | 1.83 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Washington - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Belhaven - (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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 19,720 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. Beaufort County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Beaufort County, NC annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/north-carolina/beaufort-county