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2018 Dare County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Dare County, NC went without power for an average of 6.1 hours, a total of 145K customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 75th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 895th 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 Dare 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 | October 11, 2018 21:15 | October 18, 2018 21:15 | 7d | 7,979 | 69K |
| 2 | January 4, 2018 04:00 | January 6, 2018 04:15 | 2d | 3,275 | 16K |
| 3 | November 19, 2018 21:45 | November 19, 2018 22:00 | 15m | 2,458 | 615 |
| 4 | September 14, 2018 15:45 | September 14, 2018 21:45 | 6h | 2,419 | 996 |
| 5 | July 22, 2018 06:00 | July 22, 2018 10:30 | 4h 30m | 2,410 | 4,145 |
| 6 | January 12, 2018 05:00 | January 12, 2018 12:15 | 7h 15m | 1,489 | 6,668 |
| 7 | March 8, 2018 13:00 | March 8, 2018 17:45 | 4h 45m | 1,127 | 794 |
| 8 | January 9, 2018 20:15 | January 10, 2018 13:30 | 17h 15m | 948 | 3,858 |
| 9 | May 7, 2018 17:30 | May 7, 2018 19:30 | 2h | 933 | 319 |
| 10 | December 10, 2018 00:30 | December 10, 2018 23:45 | 23h 15m | 881 | 2,559 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 39 reached 100+ customers, 7 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 Dare 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tideland Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 56.8 hrs | 6.30 | 7.7 hrs | 3.98 |
| Cape Hatteras Elec Member Corp | 2018 | 2.2 hrs | 1.65 | 64 min | 1.24 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 23,623 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. Dare County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dare 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/dare-county