County annual report · FIPS 37057
2018 Davidson County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Davidson County, NC went without power for an average of 29.3 hours, a total of 1.1M customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 189th 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 Davidson 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 14:15 | October 17, 2018 03:45 | 5d 13h | 26,329 | 928K |
| 2 | September 15, 2018 23:30 | September 18, 2018 16:45 | 2d 17h | 3,471 | 22K |
| 3 | March 2, 2018 06:45 | March 3, 2018 11:15 | 1d 4h | 2,596 | 21K |
| 4 | July 23, 2018 20:00 | July 24, 2018 03:45 | 7h 45m | 1,634 | 2,165 |
| 5 | July 16, 2018 18:00 | July 16, 2018 23:45 | 5h 45m | 1,555 | 2,584 |
| 6 | August 31, 2018 01:30 | August 31, 2018 23:00 | 21h 30m | 1,359 | 4,898 |
| 7 | March 31, 2018 21:30 | April 1, 2018 02:15 | 4h 45m | 1,172 | 2,946 |
| 8 | September 27, 2018 22:30 | September 28, 2018 08:00 | 9h 30m | 1,069 | 6,783 |
| 9 | December 15, 2018 18:00 | December 15, 2018 22:45 | 4h 45m | 1,033 | 2,107 |
| 10 | January 30, 2018 15:00 | January 31, 2018 00:15 | 9h 15m | 1,026 | 2,722 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 92 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 Davidson 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 Carolinas, LLC | 2018 | 13.1 hrs | 1.81 | 3.7 hrs | 1.19 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2018 | 10.9 hrs | 1.77 | 2.0 hrs | 1.07 |
| Town of High Point | 2018 | 12.1 hrs | 3.44 | 2.7 hrs | 1.88 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lexington - (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 ÷ 37,592 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. Davidson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Davidson 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/davidson-county