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2018 Beaufort County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Beaufort County, NC went without power for an average of 40.6 hours, a total of 801K customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 143rd of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Beaufort County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 13, 2018 12:45 | September 14, 2018 21:45 | 1d 9h | 10,377 | 188K |
| 2 | September 15, 2018 04:00 | September 23, 2018 00:15 | 7d 20h | 7,573 | 477K |
| 3 | June 1, 2018 22:30 | June 2, 2018 14:15 | 15h 45m | 6,011 | 8,593 |
| 4 | October 11, 2018 17:15 | October 13, 2018 03:00 | 1d 9h | 5,003 | 45K |
| 5 | October 10, 2018 04:00 | October 10, 2018 07:00 | 3h | 3,156 | 9,465 |
| 6 | December 18, 2018 23:15 | December 19, 2018 01:30 | 2h 15m | 3,136 | 5,720 |
| 7 | July 28, 2018 17:30 | July 29, 2018 00:30 | 7h | 1,796 | 3,334 |
| 8 | October 17, 2018 11:15 | October 17, 2018 14:30 | 3h 15m | 1,773 | 1,592 |
| 9 | January 4, 2018 05:30 | January 4, 2018 23:15 | 17h 45m | 1,598 | 9,345 |
| 10 | March 2, 2018 10:00 | March 2, 2018 18:45 | 8h 45m | 1,586 | 5,783 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 47 reached 100+ customers, 12 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Beaufort County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Energy Progress - (NC) | 2018 | 43.0 hrs | 2.71 | 2.6 hrs | 1.33 |
| Edgecombe-Martin County E M C | 2018 | 2.8 hrs | 1.16 | 2.0 hrs | 0.98 |
| Tideland Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 56.8 hrs | 6.30 | 7.7 hrs | 3.98 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Washington - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Belhaven - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 82% of North Carolina's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 19,720 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Beaufort County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Beaufort County, NC annual power outage report, 2018, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2018/north-carolina/beaufort-county