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2018 Martin County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Martin County, NC went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 29K customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 86th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1771st 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 Martin 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 | March 27, 2018 19:45 | March 27, 2018 20:00 | 15m | 5,361 | 1,340 |
| 2 | May 28, 2018 17:00 | May 28, 2018 19:00 | 2h | 3,346 | 4,024 |
| 3 | March 1, 2018 19:45 | March 1, 2018 22:30 | 2h 45m | 1,689 | 2,169 |
| 4 | June 22, 2018 03:00 | June 22, 2018 16:30 | 13h 30m | 1,385 | 1,532 |
| 5 | September 13, 2018 20:15 | September 14, 2018 20:45 | 1d | 683 | 4,511 |
| 6 | October 11, 2018 23:30 | October 12, 2018 18:30 | 19h | 644 | 5,494 |
| 7 | August 3, 2018 14:00 | August 3, 2018 17:30 | 3h 30m | 633 | 206 |
| 8 | July 31, 2018 22:30 | July 31, 2018 23:30 | 1h | 632 | 632 |
| 9 | August 8, 2018 09:30 | August 8, 2018 10:30 | 1h | 631 | 631 |
| 10 | August 11, 2018 19:30 | August 12, 2018 04:00 | 8h 30m | 551 | 363 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 21 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Martin 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edgecombe-Martin County E M C | 2018 | 2.8 hrs | 1.16 | 2.0 hrs | 0.98 |
| Halifax Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 5.9 hrs | 2.25 | 3.7 hrs | 1.67 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Washington - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Robersonville - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Hamilton - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Oak City - (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 ÷ 13,275 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. Martin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Martin 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/martin-county