County annual report · FIPS 37107
2018 Lenoir County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Lenoir County, NC went without power for an average of 40.1 hours, a total of 607K customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 146th 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 Lenoir 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 22, 2018 22:30 | 7d 18h | 8,518 | 463K |
| 2 | September 13, 2018 13:00 | September 14, 2018 21:45 | 1d 8h | 7,665 | 82K |
| 3 | September 2, 2018 04:15 | September 2, 2018 18:45 | 14h 30m | 3,007 | 23K |
| 4 | January 8, 2018 07:15 | January 8, 2018 08:15 | 1h | 1,919 | 1,919 |
| 5 | October 24, 2018 21:45 | October 25, 2018 01:30 | 3h 45m | 1,599 | 3,571 |
| 6 | May 14, 2018 00:45 | May 14, 2018 02:30 | 1h 45m | 1,218 | 1,827 |
| 7 | April 16, 2018 11:45 | April 16, 2018 16:30 | 4h 45m | 1,215 | 1,523 |
| 8 | July 25, 2018 14:00 | July 25, 2018 18:00 | 4h | 1,100 | 2,531 |
| 9 | May 6, 2018 09:30 | May 6, 2018 19:15 | 9h 45m | 912 | 4,609 |
| 10 | December 27, 2018 17:30 | December 27, 2018 18:45 | 1h 15m | 839 | 294 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 29 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Lenoir 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 |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (NC) | 2018 | 51.3 hrs | 2.31 | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jones-Onslow Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pitt & Greene Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Kinston - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of La Grange - (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 ÷ 15,148 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. Lenoir County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lenoir 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/lenoir-county