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

Power outage history

Nash County North Carolina

6.1hours

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

70th most of 100 in North Carolina close to the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Matthew · Oct 9, 2016 45% of customers out · 90% back in 2.2 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 6.1h / 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% 7hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 3.8days Hurricane Matthew, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 69% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2018 11 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 26,243 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 Nash'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 11 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Nash, hours without power per customer

NashUS median countyNorth Carolina average
0 10 20 30 40 50 9.4 ’15 37 ’16 2.7 ’17 11 ’18 4.5 ’19 8.1 ’20 2.3 ’21 7.1 ’22 7.6 ’23 4.5 ’24 4.0 ’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 11,824 45% 3.8 d 2.2 d 484k
Jan 22, 2016 Winter storm 10,366 40% 3.0 d 2.4 d 361k
Feb 26, 2015 Winter storm 7,008 27% 46 h 34 h 155k
Oct 11, 2018 Hurricane Michael 8,266 32% 44 h 33 h 147k
Feb 6, 2020 Thunderstorms 6,702 26% 47 h 43 h 99k
Aug 7, 2023 Thunderstorms 13,209 50% 20 h 8.2 h 85k
Sep 30, 2022 Hurricane Ian 2,910 11% 26 h 8.0 h 45k
Feb 14, 2015 No storm report 8,264 31% 19 h 5.2 h 44k
Jun 17, 2022 Thunderstorms 5,476 21% 23 h 13 h 39k
Jun 20, 2019 Thunderstorms 3,116 12% 23 h 22 h 33k
Jan 9, 2024 No storm report 2,438 9% 24 h 17 h 29k
Jul 8, 2016 Thunderstorms 2,972 11% 16 h 13 h 27k

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 +18h

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 Nash from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Thunderstorms 38%
  • No storm on record 31%
  • Tropical storm 25%
  • Winter storm 2.7%
  • Tornadoes 1.7%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Nash

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
Halifax Electric Member Corp NC 207 207 1.66 14.5 128k
Virginia Electric & Power Co Investor Owned 286 137 1.49 12.7 109k
Wake Electric Membership Corp Cooperative 211 128 1.94 14.3 56k
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

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 26,243 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 →