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2018 Iredell County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Iredell County, NC went without power for an average of 13.4 hours, a total of 471K customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 421st 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 Iredell 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 14, 2018 22:15 | 3d 7h | 12,951 | 163K |
| 2 | July 22, 2018 14:45 | July 22, 2018 18:45 | 4h | 5,052 | 7,754 |
| 3 | August 28, 2018 16:00 | August 29, 2018 02:15 | 10h 15m | 5,003 | 1,268 |
| 4 | July 24, 2018 13:00 | July 24, 2018 22:45 | 9h 45m | 4,507 | 18K |
| 5 | June 21, 2018 14:15 | June 22, 2018 23:45 | 1d 9h | 4,159 | 42K |
| 6 | September 15, 2018 18:30 | September 17, 2018 23:30 | 2d 5h | 3,620 | 32K |
| 7 | October 10, 2018 22:15 | October 11, 2018 02:00 | 3h 45m | 3,443 | 6,188 |
| 8 | March 6, 2018 18:15 | March 7, 2018 13:00 | 18h 45m | 2,775 | 12K |
| 9 | June 30, 2018 22:45 | July 1, 2018 04:00 | 5h 15m | 2,609 | 8,478 |
| 10 | August 8, 2018 18:15 | August 9, 2018 21:45 | 1d 3h | 2,267 | 18K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 105 reached 100+ customers, 21 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Iredell 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 Carolinas, LLC | 2018 | 13.1 hrs | 1.81 | 3.7 hrs | 1.19 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2018 | 10.9 hrs | 1.77 | 2.0 hrs | 1.07 |
| City of Statesville - (NC) | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.26 | - | - |
| 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 ÷ 35,197 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. Iredell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Iredell 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/iredell-county