City of Rocky Mount, NC
Power reliability at City of Rocky Mount
North Carolina's record with City of Rocky Mount: 1.2 outages in the most recent filing year, 81 minutes without power in total, modestly better than the national norm. That is 58% less outage time than the North Carolina state average of 3.3 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Rocky Mount looks like
Outages here typically run short, about 68 minutes before power is back - a battery power station or small portable generator should cover the essentials through most of them. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
The generator question for City of Rocky Mount
Serving 29,489 customers here, Outages at City of Rocky Mount run below the national norm, so a generator is not urgent - still worth checking if you have medical equipment or a sump pump that cannot go without power.
Where this number comes from
City of Rocky Mount filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire North Carolina territory, serving 29,489 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in North Carolina is covered too: see North Carolina's full record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.