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2025 Northampton County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Northampton County, NC went without power for an average of 21.7 hours, a total of 131K customer-hours (North Carolina average 9.8 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 305th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Northampton County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 16, 2025 21:45 | May 19, 2025 18:45 | 2d 21h | 4,999 | 74K |
| 2 | June 20, 2025 00:30 | June 20, 2025 22:15 | 21h 45m | 2,465 | 35K |
| 3 | March 17, 2025 05:00 | March 17, 2025 11:00 | 6h | 893 | 4,373 |
| 4 | May 4, 2025 02:30 | May 4, 2025 03:45 | 1h 15m | 721 | 900 |
| 5 | July 9, 2025 12:15 | July 9, 2025 14:15 | 2h | 388 | 485 |
| 6 | May 30, 2025 07:00 | May 30, 2025 12:15 | 5h 15m | 384 | 1,940 |
| 7 | January 10, 2025 06:15 | January 10, 2025 09:45 | 3h 30m | 332 | 415 |
| 8 | July 31, 2025 10:30 | July 31, 2025 12:15 | 1h 45m | 273 | 280 |
| 9 | July 16, 2025 00:45 | July 16, 2025 08:30 | 7h 45m | 266 | 447 |
| 10 | July 15, 2025 07:15 | July 15, 2025 16:30 | 9h 15m | 218 | 686 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 27 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 Northampton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2024 | 6.0 hrs | 2.50 | 4.6 hrs | 2.23 |
| Roanoke Electric Member Corp | 2024 | 2.1 hrs | 1.26 | 1.8 hrs | 1.08 |
| 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 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 6,048 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. Northampton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Northampton County, NC annual power outage report, 2025, 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/2025/north-carolina/northampton-county