County annual report · FIPS 37191
2025 Wayne County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Wayne County, NC went without power for an average of 7.7 hours, a total of 139K customer-hours (North Carolina average 9.8 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1046th 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 Wayne 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 14, 2025 05:15 | February 14, 2025 07:15 | 2h | 6,851 | 14K |
| 2 | May 12, 2025 01:45 | May 12, 2025 03:30 | 1h 45m | 5,395 | 7,237 |
| 3 | August 3, 2025 01:15 | August 3, 2025 17:00 | 15h 45m | 2,440 | 11K |
| 4 | June 25, 2025 19:15 | June 26, 2025 15:15 | 20h | 2,333 | 12K |
| 5 | May 15, 2025 08:45 | May 16, 2025 02:00 | 17h 15m | 1,895 | 10K |
| 6 | May 18, 2025 21:45 | May 19, 2025 13:45 | 16h | 1,795 | 3,395 |
| 7 | April 7, 2025 16:00 | April 8, 2025 11:00 | 19h | 1,646 | 5,890 |
| 8 | November 5, 2025 13:45 | November 5, 2025 21:45 | 8h | 1,311 | 452 |
| 9 | October 30, 2025 11:00 | October 30, 2025 15:15 | 4h 15m | 1,261 | 1,426 |
| 10 | February 16, 2025 11:15 | February 17, 2025 03:45 | 16h 30m | 1,063 | 5,342 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 76 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Wayne 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Energy Progress - (NC) | 2024 | 17.2 hrs | 1.70 | 2.2 hrs | 1.22 |
| City of Wilson - (NC) | 2024 | 2.1 hrs | 1.07 | 56 min | 0.80 |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (NC) | 2024 | 1.9 hrs | 1.05 | 1.9 hrs | 1.05 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pitt & Greene Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Stantonsburg - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Fremont - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Pikeville - (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 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 18,042 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. Wayne County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wayne 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/wayne-county