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2018 Carteret County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Carteret County, NC went without power for an average of 86.1 hours, a total of 3.4M customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 63rd 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 Carteret 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 14:00 | September 14, 2018 21:45 | 1d 7h | 24,678 | 618K |
| 2 | September 15, 2018 04:00 | September 28, 2018 14:00 | 13d 10h | 24,637 | 2.7M |
| 3 | August 10, 2018 23:45 | August 11, 2018 01:15 | 1h 30m | 5,083 | 1,274 |
| 4 | October 11, 2018 08:15 | October 13, 2018 00:30 | 1d 16h | 3,110 | 32K |
| 5 | November 13, 2018 10:15 | November 13, 2018 23:15 | 13h | 2,751 | 17K |
| 6 | November 24, 2018 17:30 | November 25, 2018 04:00 | 10h 30m | 1,399 | 10K |
| 7 | December 28, 2018 16:00 | December 29, 2018 01:00 | 9h | 1,331 | 2,772 |
| 8 | January 3, 2018 01:30 | January 3, 2018 19:45 | 18h 15m | 1,297 | 3,947 |
| 9 | March 2, 2018 17:45 | March 3, 2018 01:00 | 7h 15m | 1,280 | 2,645 |
| 10 | December 7, 2018 20:00 | December 7, 2018 22:00 | 2h | 1,232 | 311 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 39 reached 100+ customers, 11 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Carteret 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 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Carteret-Craven El Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 39,432 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. Carteret County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Carteret 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/carteret-county