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

Power outage history

Pamlico County North Carolina

19hours

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

14th most of 100 in North Carolina 2.9× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Florence · Sep 15, 2018 96% of customers out · 90% back in 5.0 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 19h / yr State average 8.3 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 7.8 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 6.7days Hurricane Florence, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 84% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2018 4.1 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 11,158 EAGLE-I 2024 count · 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 Pamlico'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 4.1 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Pamlico, hours without power per customer

PamlicoUS median countyNorth Carolina average
0 20 40 60 1.4 ’15 11 ’16 1.5 ’17 98 ’18 24 ’19 6.9 ’20 1.4 ’21 5.3 ’22 8.3 ’23 5.4 ’24 2.7 ’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
Sep 15, 2018 Hurricane Florence 10,719 96% 6.7 d 5.0 d 781k
Sep 13, 2018 Hurricane Florence 10,506 94% 30 h 28 h 195k
Sep 6, 2019 Hurricane Dorian 7,395 66% 2.7 d 31 h 190k
Oct 8, 2016 Hurricane Matthew 3,035 27% 3.2 d 2.3 d 112k
Oct 11, 2018 Hurricane Michael 3,317 30% 26 h 20 h 52k
Aug 4, 2020 Hurricane Isaias 4,457 40% 20 h 12 h 47k
May 9, 2023 No storm report 2,825 25% 9.2 h 7.2 h 25k
Jan 9, 2024 Thunderstorms 1,689 15% 20 h 13 h 21k
Dec 23, 2022 Windstorm 5,489 49% 9.8 h 2.0 h 15k
Aug 31, 2023 Hurricane Idalia 1,656 15% 11 h 7.0 h 13k
Jan 3, 2018 Winter storm 1,300 12% 16 h 14 h 10k
Jun 17, 2022 No storm report 2,644 24% 4.0 h 3.5 h 9.8k

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 +12h 90% by +14h

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

  • Tropical storm 80%
  • No storm on record 16%
  • Thunderstorms 2.0%
  • Winter storm 1.1%
  • Windstorm 0.9%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Pamlico

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
Tideland Electric Member Corp Cooperative 205 164 2.49 16.4 22k

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 11,158 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 →