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2018 Halifax County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Halifax County, NC went without power for an average of 4.5 hours, a total of 131K customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 79th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1131st 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 Halifax 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 18:45 | October 14, 2018 18:30 | 2d 23h | 7,286 | 83K |
| 2 | July 28, 2018 00:00 | July 29, 2018 05:45 | 1d 5h | 1,602 | 1,730 |
| 3 | March 2, 2018 06:15 | March 3, 2018 04:15 | 22h | 1,552 | 8,077 |
| 4 | September 27, 2018 13:30 | September 27, 2018 15:15 | 1h 45m | 1,507 | 384 |
| 5 | May 31, 2018 02:30 | May 31, 2018 03:15 | 45m | 1,494 | 1,121 |
| 6 | June 2, 2018 02:00 | June 2, 2018 07:15 | 5h 15m | 1,055 | 3,283 |
| 7 | December 9, 2018 14:30 | December 10, 2018 21:00 | 1d 6h | 871 | 3,252 |
| 8 | October 21, 2018 07:15 | October 21, 2018 12:15 | 5h | 823 | 3,248 |
| 9 | July 18, 2018 03:00 | July 18, 2018 09:00 | 6h | 821 | 778 |
| 10 | September 14, 2018 02:45 | September 14, 2018 21:45 | 19h | 785 | 3,783 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 37 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Halifax 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 |
| Roanoke Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 3.5 hrs | 1.54 | 1.9 hrs | 1.02 |
| Halifax Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 5.9 hrs | 2.25 | 3.7 hrs | 1.67 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Enfield - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Hobgood | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Scotland Neck - (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 ÷ 28,826 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. Halifax County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Halifax 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/halifax-county