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2018 Edgecombe County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Edgecombe County, NC went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 21K customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 89th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2292nd 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 Edgecombe 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 14, 2018 20:00 | 2d 22h | 1,343 | 5,719 |
| 2 | September 30, 2018 10:45 | September 30, 2018 19:30 | 8h 45m | 996 | 2,994 |
| 3 | March 2, 2018 10:30 | March 2, 2018 19:00 | 8h 30m | 377 | 363 |
| 4 | December 9, 2018 12:15 | December 9, 2018 23:30 | 11h 15m | 340 | 2,784 |
| 5 | July 18, 2018 06:30 | July 18, 2018 08:30 | 2h | 316 | 341 |
| 6 | September 13, 2018 23:15 | September 14, 2018 21:45 | 22h 30m | 312 | 5,289 |
| 7 | January 3, 2018 06:15 | January 3, 2018 08:30 | 2h 15m | 121 | 110 |
| 8 | November 9, 2018 12:15 | November 9, 2018 17:00 | 4h 45m | 102 | 185 |
| 9 | September 15, 2018 04:00 | September 15, 2018 05:00 | 1h | 84 | 64 |
| 10 | August 18, 2018 13:15 | August 18, 2018 16:30 | 3h 15m | 82 | 105 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 8 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Edgecombe 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 |
| City of Wilson - (NC) | 2018 | 40 min | 0.70 | 32 min | 0.60 |
| City of Rocky Mount - (NC) | 2018 | 1.5 hrs | 2.46 | 51 min | 1.44 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pitt & Greene Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Sharpsburg - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of MacClesfield - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Pinetops - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Tarboro - (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 ÷ 19,560 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. Edgecombe County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Edgecombe 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/edgecombe-county