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2018 Franklin County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Franklin County, NC went without power for an average of 12.6 hours, a total of 343K customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 438th 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 Franklin 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 15, 2018 00:30 | 3d 10h | 6,213 | 232K |
| 2 | March 2, 2018 10:15 | March 3, 2018 10:00 | 23h 45m | 2,915 | 9,472 |
| 3 | June 3, 2018 20:15 | June 3, 2018 22:00 | 1h 45m | 2,853 | 2,854 |
| 4 | August 6, 2018 18:15 | August 6, 2018 20:00 | 1h 45m | 1,660 | 1,929 |
| 5 | May 10, 2018 22:45 | May 11, 2018 06:30 | 7h 45m | 1,453 | 3,583 |
| 6 | September 13, 2018 14:30 | September 14, 2018 21:45 | 1d 7h | 1,440 | 12K |
| 7 | August 30, 2018 14:45 | August 30, 2018 15:00 | 15m | 1,389 | 347 |
| 8 | January 17, 2018 18:15 | January 18, 2018 05:00 | 10h 45m | 1,281 | 3,934 |
| 9 | September 1, 2018 20:00 | September 2, 2018 03:30 | 7h 30m | 1,277 | 1,107 |
| 10 | December 9, 2018 10:15 | December 11, 2018 01:15 | 1d 15h | 1,215 | 13K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 46 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Franklin 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 |
| Wake Electric Membership Corp | 2018 | 4.7 hrs | 1.98 | 73 min | 1.10 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Louisburg - (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 ÷ 27,296 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county