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2024 Sampson County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Sampson County, NC went without power for an average of 5.3 hours, a total of 103K customer-hours (North Carolina average 66.1 hours). That ranks 67th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1550th 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 Sampson 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 | August 7, 2024 22:30 | August 9, 2024 17:45 | 1d 19h | 2,882 | 24K |
| 2 | September 10, 2024 11:15 | September 10, 2024 13:45 | 2h 30m | 2,137 | 3,214 |
| 3 | May 2, 2024 23:00 | May 3, 2024 01:15 | 2h 15m | 2,133 | 2,290 |
| 4 | May 8, 2024 18:30 | May 8, 2024 21:30 | 3h | 1,850 | 2,390 |
| 5 | December 10, 2024 11:15 | December 10, 2024 17:45 | 6h 30m | 1,471 | 3,765 |
| 6 | April 12, 2024 22:45 | April 13, 2024 08:15 | 9h 30m | 1,282 | 3,846 |
| 7 | June 14, 2024 22:45 | June 15, 2024 02:15 | 3h 30m | 1,282 | 1,606 |
| 8 | August 3, 2024 18:15 | August 4, 2024 23:00 | 1d 4h | 786 | 11K |
| 9 | March 5, 2024 13:15 | March 5, 2024 21:00 | 7h 45m | 736 | 2,811 |
| 10 | January 9, 2024 16:30 | January 11, 2024 00:45 | 1d 8h | 729 | 7,698 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 64 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Sampson 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 |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (NC) | 2024 | 1.9 hrs | 1.05 | 1.9 hrs | 1.05 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Four County Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| South River Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 19,420 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. Sampson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sampson 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/sampson-county