Power outage history
Pitt County North Carolina
1.8hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
98th most of 100 in North Carolina 73% 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 Pitt's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 4.9 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Pitt, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 2025 | No storm report | 23,397 | 29% | 15 h | 24 h | 333k |
| Oct 8, 2016 | Hurricane Matthew | 2,907 | 4% | 5.8 d | – | 228k |
| Dec 2, 2022 | No storm report | 2,728 | 3% | 2.8 d | – | 175k |
| Sep 15, 2018 | Hurricane Florence | 1,861 | 2% | 4.3 d | – | 166k |
| Jan 9, 2024 | No storm report | 7,542 | 9% | 5.5 h | 3.0 h | 28k |
| Dec 5, 2025 | No storm report | 3,177 | 4% | 7.2 h | – | 19k |
| Sep 14, 2018 | Hurricane Florence | 1,581 | 2% | 16 h | – | 16k |
| Sep 2, 2021 | No storm report | 2,381 | 3% | 8.5 h | – | 13k |
| Mar 23, 2024 | No storm report | 18,757 | 23% | 2.8 h | 1.0 h | 11k |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 1,040 | 1% | 7.2 h | – | 7.5k |
| Aug 1, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 1,316 | 2% | 4.5 h | – | 5.6k |
| Dec 24, 2022 | No storm report | 818 | 1% | 5.2 h | – | 4.3k |
| Feb 8, 2023 | No storm report | 6,013 | 7% | 48 min | 1.0 h | 3.3k |
| Jun 17, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,740 | 2% | 1.8 h | – | 3.0k |
| Aug 27, 2025 | No storm report | 1,884 | 2% | 1.5 h | – | 2.8k |
| Dec 21, 2023 | No storm report | 1,273 | 2% | 2.0 h | – | 2.5k |
| Sep 16, 2024 | No storm report | 1,629 | 2% | 1.5 h | – | 2.4k |
| May 22, 2023 | No storm report | 1,609 | 2% | 1.5 h | – | 2.4k |
| Jan 14, 2024 | No storm report | 1,860 | 2% | 1.2 h | – | 2.3k |
| May 19, 2024 | No storm report | 1,840 | 2% | 1.2 h | – | 2.3k |
| Jul 16, 2019 | No storm report | 1,430 | 2% | 1.5 h | – | 2.1k |
| Apr 7, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,435 | 2% | 1.5 h | – | 2.1k |
| Dec 7, 2023 | No storm report | 2,802 | 3% | 48 min | – | 2.1k |
| Apr 23, 2024 | No storm report | 2,605 | 3% | 1.8 h | – | 2.1k |
| Dec 15, 2025 | No storm report | 2,719 | 3% | 48 min | – | 2.0k |
| Jul 21, 2024 | No storm report | 989 | 1% | 2.0 h | – | 2.0k |
| Dec 23, 2022 | Windstorm | 1,278 | 2% | 1.5 h | – | 1.9k |
| Jul 30, 2022 | No storm report | 3,775 | 5% | 30 min | – | 1.9k |
| Jun 4, 2022 | No storm report | 1,071 | 1% | 1.8 h | – | 1.9k |
| May 29, 2016 | No storm report | 1,242 | 2% | 1.5 h | – | 1.9k |
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 Pitt from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 76%
- Tropical storm 21%
- Thunderstorms 2.2%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Pitt
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 |
| Greenville Utilities Comm | Municipal | 43 | 28 | 0.41 | 12.7 | 67k |
| Town of Ayden | NC | – | – | – | 12.4 | 50k |
| City of Winterville | NC | – | – | – | – | 39k |
| City of Wilson | Municipal | 66 | 51 | 0.55 | 12.8 | 32k |
| Town of Farmville | NC | – | – | – | – | 29k |
| City of Washington | Municipal | – | – | – | 13.0 | 12k |
| Edgecombe-Martin County E M C | Cooperative | 104 | 104 | 1.18 | 16.5 | 11k |
| Town of Fountain | NC | – | – | – | – | 2.9k |
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 80,606 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 →