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2024 Chowan County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Chowan County, NC went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (North Carolina average 66.1 hours). That ranks 89th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2557th 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 Chowan 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 22:45 | January 10, 2024 04:00 | 5h 15m | 2,351 | 9,400 |
| 2 | November 15, 2024 16:15 | November 15, 2024 19:30 | 3h 15m | 1,856 | 2,864 |
| 3 | October 22, 2024 12:45 | October 22, 2024 16:45 | 4h | 1,755 | 732 |
| 4 | January 10, 2024 06:00 | January 10, 2024 06:15 | 15m | 257 | 64 |
| 5 | January 10, 2024 11:15 | January 10, 2024 18:45 | 7h 30m | 223 | 1,184 |
| 6 | July 4, 2024 23:00 | July 4, 2024 23:15 | 15m | 177 | 44 |
| 7 | July 5, 2024 00:00 | July 5, 2024 01:30 | 1h 30m | 177 | 133 |
| 8 | January 4, 2024 18:15 | January 4, 2024 19:45 | 1h 30m | 165 | 248 |
| 9 | July 18, 2024 06:45 | July 18, 2024 13:45 | 7h | 123 | 140 |
| 10 | May 5, 2024 19:00 | May 6, 2024 13:30 | 18h 30m | 113 | 634 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 11 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Chowan 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roanoke Electric Member Corp | 2024 | 2.1 hrs | 1.26 | 1.8 hrs | 1.08 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Albemarle Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Edenton - (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 ÷ 12,047 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. Chowan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chowan 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/chowan-county