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2025 Washington County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Washington County, NC went without power for an average of 4.9 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (North Carolina average 9.8 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1522nd 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 Washington 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 | February 4, 2025 10:00 | February 4, 2025 19:15 | 9h 15m | 1,644 | 1,083 |
| 2 | April 25, 2025 05:00 | April 25, 2025 11:15 | 6h 15m | 1,231 | 1,621 |
| 3 | January 16, 2025 12:45 | January 16, 2025 18:15 | 5h 30m | 987 | 1,151 |
| 4 | October 11, 2025 20:15 | October 12, 2025 02:30 | 6h 15m | 681 | 2,047 |
| 5 | June 30, 2025 10:45 | June 30, 2025 11:30 | 45m | 638 | 372 |
| 6 | February 20, 2025 04:00 | February 21, 2025 04:30 | 1d | 451 | 3,478 |
| 7 | July 10, 2025 21:30 | July 11, 2025 16:15 | 18h 45m | 436 | 1,292 |
| 8 | December 4, 2025 15:30 | December 4, 2025 19:45 | 4h 15m | 333 | 953 |
| 9 | June 14, 2025 07:30 | June 14, 2025 11:45 | 4h 15m | 329 | 195 |
| 10 | July 21, 2025 00:15 | July 21, 2025 02:45 | 2h 30m | 245 | 487 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 15 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2025; 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, 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/washington-county