County annual report · FIPS 37063
2018 Durham County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Durham County, NC went without power for an average of 225.3 hours, a total of 1.4M customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 20th 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 Durham 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 15:00 | October 16, 2018 02:45 | 4d 11h | 27,697 | 636K |
| 2 | January 17, 2018 15:00 | January 19, 2018 02:30 | 1d 11h | 12,161 | 93K |
| 3 | December 9, 2018 01:00 | December 12, 2018 04:30 | 3d 3h | 9,976 | 106K |
| 4 | April 11, 2018 12:45 | April 11, 2018 20:30 | 7h 45m | 6,445 | 3,384 |
| 5 | May 10, 2018 21:45 | May 11, 2018 19:45 | 22h | 5,620 | 46K |
| 6 | August 2, 2018 11:15 | August 3, 2018 05:45 | 18h 30m | 5,405 | 10K |
| 7 | July 31, 2018 23:30 | August 1, 2018 07:30 | 8h | 5,333 | 9,335 |
| 8 | January 25, 2018 07:15 | January 25, 2018 07:45 | 30m | 5,112 | 2,556 |
| 9 | June 11, 2018 03:45 | June 12, 2018 02:15 | 22h 30m | 5,001 | 17K |
| 10 | November 12, 2018 11:00 | November 14, 2018 05:00 | 1d 18h | 4,297 | 13K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 121 reached 100+ customers, 53 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 Durham 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 Carolinas, LLC | 2018 | 13.1 hrs | 1.81 | 3.7 hrs | 1.19 |
| Piedmont Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 30.8 hrs | 2.81 | 2.5 hrs | 1.26 |
| Wake Electric Membership Corp | 2018 | 4.7 hrs | 1.98 | 73 min | 1.10 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,008 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. Durham County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Durham 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/durham-county