Power Out Map
– 0% of Greene out 0 customers out in North Carolina

Power outage history

Greene County North Carolina

4.2hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

83rd most of 100 in North Carolina 36% below the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Matthew · Oct 9, 2016 51% of customers out · 90% back in 29 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 4.2h / yr State average 8.3 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 2.3 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 3hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 5.0days Hurricane Matthew, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 61% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2018 15 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 5,487 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

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 Greene's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2018 was the worst well-recorded year, at 15 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Greene, hours without power per customer

GreeneUS median countyNorth Carolina average
0 10 20 30 40 1.0 ’15 35 ’16 1.6 ’17 15 ’18 2.5 ’19 5.0 ’20 0.3 ’21 4.0 ’22 3.4 ’23 1.4 ’24 2.1 ’25 NC 8.3 US 6.6

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 2,799 51% 5.0 d 29 h 170k
Sep 15, 2018 Hurricane Florence 2,270 41% 2.6 d 29 h 54k
Aug 4, 2020 Hurricane Isaias 1,752 32% 11 h 6.2 h 18k
Sep 2, 2016 Hurricane Hermine 1,769 32% 12 h 12 min 15k
Sep 13, 2018 Hurricane Florence 755 14% 29 h 13 h 14k
Dec 23, 2022 No storm report 2,175 40% 7.0 h 1.8 h 8.3k
Sep 23, 2023 Tropical Storm Ophelia 1,803 33% 5.0 h 2.2 h 8.0k
Sep 5, 2019 Hurricane Dorian 508 9% 19 h 5.0 h 5.6k
Feb 16, 2025 No storm report 1,405 26% 7.2 h 7.2 h 4.2k
Dec 24, 2022 No storm report 665 12% 15 h 10 h 4.1k
May 15, 2022 No storm report 2,082 38% 2.2 h 2.2 h 4.1k
Jul 16, 2019 No storm report 2,409 44% 5.5 h 1.5 h 4.0k

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.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +4h 90% by +6h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Greene from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Tropical storm 58%
  • No storm on record 39%
  • Thunderstorms 2.3%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Greene

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
City of Wilson Municipal 66 51 0.55 12.8 32k
Town of Stantonsburg NC – – – – 13k
Town of Hookerton NC – – – – 4.5k
Town of Walstonburg NC – – – – 1.3k

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.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across North Carolina

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All North Carolina counties →

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 5,487 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 →