City of Wilson, NC
How often City of Wilson goes out
City of Wilson customers in North Carolina rarely lose power at all: 0.5 interruptions last year, adding up to just 66 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 66% less outage time than the North Carolina state average of 3.3 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
Outages here average 2 hours before power returns, a moderate length where a portable generator earns its keep over battery storage alone. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
What this means for buying a generator
Most City of Wilson customers keep power almost all year. Serving 38,293 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
How City of Wilson's record was measured
City of Wilson filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire North Carolina territory, serving 38,293 customers here, not a single street or outage. See North Carolina as a whole, across every utility that filed: North Carolina's outage record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.