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2024 Martin County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Martin County, NC went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 40K customer-hours (North Carolina average 66.1 hours). That ranks 79th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2108th 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 Martin 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 20:15 | January 11, 2024 01:30 | 1d 5h | 2,535 | 15K |
| 2 | April 3, 2024 17:30 | April 3, 2024 19:15 | 1h 45m | 1,202 | 704 |
| 3 | August 5, 2024 10:15 | August 5, 2024 13:30 | 3h 15m | 911 | 2,268 |
| 4 | June 14, 2024 20:00 | June 15, 2024 02:00 | 6h | 781 | 2,329 |
| 5 | June 19, 2024 03:15 | June 19, 2024 04:00 | 45m | 780 | 585 |
| 6 | June 24, 2024 00:00 | June 24, 2024 02:00 | 2h | 780 | 796 |
| 7 | July 2, 2024 02:30 | July 2, 2024 04:45 | 2h 15m | 780 | 1,755 |
| 8 | July 23, 2024 07:30 | July 23, 2024 10:45 | 3h 15m | 677 | 2,075 |
| 9 | March 30, 2024 23:45 | March 31, 2024 03:30 | 3h 45m | 641 | 964 |
| 10 | May 27, 2024 21:30 | May 28, 2024 05:15 | 7h 45m | 527 | 2,537 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 23 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Martin 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edgecombe-Martin County E M C | 2024 | 1.9 hrs | 1.16 | 83 min | 1.00 |
| Halifax Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 5.9 hrs | 2.25 | 3.7 hrs | 1.67 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Washington - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Robersonville - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Hamilton - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Oak City - (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 ÷ 13,275 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. Martin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Martin 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/martin-county