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2024 Washington County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Washington County, NC went without power for an average of 9.3 hours, a total of 38K customer-hours (North Carolina average 66.1 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 984th 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 Washington 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 20:45 | January 11, 2024 02:00 | 1d 5h | 3,000 | 27K |
| 2 | August 2, 2024 21:30 | August 2, 2024 23:15 | 1h 45m | 1,125 | 1,710 |
| 3 | February 29, 2024 16:30 | February 29, 2024 18:45 | 2h 15m | 982 | 250 |
| 4 | December 11, 2024 19:15 | December 12, 2024 10:15 | 15h | 830 | 663 |
| 5 | January 4, 2024 02:45 | January 4, 2024 04:00 | 1h 15m | 667 | 834 |
| 6 | February 13, 2024 15:45 | February 13, 2024 20:30 | 4h 45m | 400 | 1,032 |
| 7 | April 3, 2024 15:30 | April 3, 2024 17:15 | 1h 45m | 387 | 153 |
| 8 | March 11, 2024 03:30 | March 11, 2024 05:30 | 2h | 372 | 744 |
| 9 | July 1, 2024 11:30 | July 1, 2024 13:30 | 2h | 339 | 250 |
| 10 | January 13, 2024 12:15 | January 13, 2024 14:45 | 2h 30m | 240 | 600 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 19 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 Washington 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tideland Electric Member Corp | 2024 | 4.5 hrs | 2.54 | 2.6 hrs | 1.83 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 4,062 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county