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2018 Lee County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Lee County, NC went without power for an average of 40.1 hours, a total of 524K customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 147th 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 Lee 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 | September 15, 2018 04:00 | September 21, 2018 22:15 | 6d 18h | 9,775 | 253K |
| 2 | January 2, 2018 12:00 | January 2, 2018 19:30 | 7h 30m | 5,462 | 13K |
| 3 | October 11, 2018 12:15 | October 13, 2018 19:15 | 2d 7h | 5,414 | 73K |
| 4 | January 17, 2018 17:15 | January 19, 2018 22:00 | 2d 4h | 5,258 | 73K |
| 5 | September 14, 2018 01:00 | September 14, 2018 21:45 | 20h 45m | 4,309 | 27K |
| 6 | May 23, 2018 18:45 | May 23, 2018 19:30 | 45m | 2,138 | 1,070 |
| 7 | January 30, 2018 14:45 | January 30, 2018 17:45 | 3h | 1,975 | 992 |
| 8 | June 26, 2018 13:00 | June 26, 2018 23:45 | 10h 45m | 1,484 | 857 |
| 9 | July 5, 2018 15:00 | July 5, 2018 22:15 | 7h 15m | 1,480 | 1,139 |
| 10 | June 28, 2018 14:30 | June 28, 2018 17:00 | 2h 30m | 1,378 | 1,726 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 102 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 Lee 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 |
| Central Electric Membership Corp. - (NC) | 2018 | 22.4 hrs | - | 5.6 hrs | - |
| 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 ÷ 13,067 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. Lee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lee 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/lee-county