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2018 Gates County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Gates County, NC went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 16K customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 83rd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1516th 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 Gates 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 | November 19, 2018 20:15 | November 19, 2018 21:45 | 1h 30m | 1,429 | 716 |
| 2 | June 25, 2018 01:15 | June 25, 2018 15:00 | 13h 45m | 787 | 1,877 |
| 3 | March 2, 2018 09:00 | March 2, 2018 22:30 | 13h 30m | 581 | 907 |
| 4 | September 14, 2018 14:15 | September 14, 2018 14:45 | 30m | 568 | 284 |
| 5 | January 7, 2018 08:00 | January 7, 2018 15:30 | 7h 30m | 511 | 1,034 |
| 6 | January 28, 2018 22:15 | January 29, 2018 00:15 | 2h | 403 | 621 |
| 7 | March 17, 2018 21:45 | March 17, 2018 23:30 | 1h 45m | 403 | 251 |
| 8 | October 11, 2018 22:45 | October 12, 2018 10:30 | 11h 45m | 389 | 1,432 |
| 9 | October 15, 2018 15:15 | October 15, 2018 18:15 | 3h | 331 | 808 |
| 10 | March 30, 2018 14:30 | March 30, 2018 16:30 | 2h | 285 | 499 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 20 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 Gates 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roanoke Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 3.5 hrs | 1.54 | 1.9 hrs | 1.02 |
| 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 ÷ 5,460 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. Gates County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Gates 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/gates-county