Power outage history
Edgecombe County North Carolina
2.2hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
96th most of 100 in North Carolina 66% below the national median
Every day since 2015
Eleven years, one night at a time
Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Edgecombe's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 3.7 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Edgecombe, hours without power per customer
The record
The biggest outages since 2015
Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.
| Began | Storm | Peak out | Share | Lasted | 90% restored | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 2016 | Hurricane Matthew | 1,378 | 7% | 34 h | 33 h | 30k |
| Jan 22, 2016 | Winter storm | 689 | 4% | 2.6 d | – | 27k |
| Sep 30, 2022 | Hurricane Ian | 1,326 | 7% | 24 h | 20 h | 23k |
| May 21, 2023 | No storm report | 4,195 | 21% | 6.5 h | 11 h | 16k |
| Feb 26, 2015 | Winter storm | 381 | 2% | 33 h | – | 11k |
| Jun 17, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 2,002 | 10% | 14 h | 13 h | 11k |
| Aug 28, 2022 | No storm report | 4,152 | 21% | 10 h | 3.5 h | 9.1k |
| Sep 6, 2019 | Hurricane Dorian | 1,103 | 6% | 15 h | 9.8 h | 8.6k |
| Aug 15, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,223 | 6% | 6.8 h | 4.5 h | 5.2k |
| Jun 14, 2025 | No storm report | 2,994 | 15% | 2.0 h | 2.2 h | 5.1k |
| Jan 5, 2020 | No storm report | 572 | 3% | 8.8 h | – | 5.0k |
| Jul 19, 2016 | Flooding | 691 | 4% | 7.5 h | – | 4.9k |
| Jan 4, 2023 | No storm report | 1,501 | 8% | 3.2 h | 3.2 h | 4.9k |
| Aug 4, 2020 | Hurricane Isaias | 680 | 3% | 11 h | – | 4.9k |
| Sep 13, 2018 | Hurricane Florence | 312 | 2% | 17 h | – | 4.7k |
| Jul 28, 2020 | No storm report | 2,178 | 11% | 5.2 h | 4.2 h | 4.7k |
| Sep 7, 2019 | Hurricane Dorian | 1,030 | 5% | 6.8 h | 8.2 h | 4.7k |
| Aug 16, 2023 | No storm report | 748 | 4% | 7.0 h | – | 4.5k |
| Feb 7, 2020 | Windstorm | 1,115 | 6% | 9.5 h | 8.5 h | 4.4k |
| Jul 19, 2023 | Tornadoes | 800 | 4% | 8.0 h | – | 4.3k |
| May 9, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 727 | 4% | 8.0 h | – | 3.9k |
| Jan 19, 2016 | No storm report | 1,056 | 5% | 3.8 h | 3.2 h | 3.6k |
| May 6, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 664 | 3% | 7.0 h | – | 3.5k |
| Sep 22, 2023 | Tropical Storm Ophelia | 620 | 3% | 8.0 h | – | 3.3k |
| Aug 25, 2021 | No storm report | 451 | 2% | 7.0 h | – | 3.2k |
| Mar 26, 2024 | No storm report | 2,616 | 13% | 1.2 h | 1.0 h | 3.1k |
| Sep 30, 2018 | No storm report | 996 | 5% | 3.0 h | 1.2 h | 3.0k |
| Jun 14, 2015 | No storm report | 1,326 | 7% | 2.2 h | 8.0 h | 2.8k |
| Aug 3, 2024 | No storm report | 819 | 4% | 4.8 h | – | 2.7k |
| Sep 9, 2019 | No storm report | 2,503 | 13% | 2.5 h | 2.2 h | 2.6k |
After the peak
How fast the lights come back
Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Edgecombe from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 56%
- Tropical storm 23%
- Thunderstorms 14%
- Tornadoes 2.3%
- Windstorm 2.0%
- Heat 1.4%
- Winter storm 1.1%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Edgecombe
As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole North Carolina territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.
| Utility | Type | Outage min / yr | Excl. major storms | Outages / yr | Residential ¢/kWh | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Energy Progress | Investor Owned | 183 | 145 | 1.41 | 15.2 | 1.4M |
| Pitt & Greene Elec Member Corp | NC | – | – | – | 12.6 | 116k |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | Investor Owned | 286 | 137 | 1.49 | 12.7 | 109k |
| City of Wilson | Municipal | 66 | 51 | 0.55 | 12.8 | 32k |
| City of Rocky Mount | Municipal | 81 | 72 | 1.20 | 13.2 | 24k |
| Town of Sharpsburg | NC | – | – | – | – | 13k |
| Edgecombe-Martin County E M C | Cooperative | 104 | 104 | 1.18 | 16.5 | 11k |
| Town of Pinetops | NC | – | – | – | – | 7.0k |
| Town of Tarboro | Municipal | – | – | – | 13.9 | 5.5k |
| Town of MacClesfield | NC | – | – | – | – | 942 |
EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.
About these numbers
Notes
Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 19,560 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →