County annual report · FIPS 37123
2018 Montgomery County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Montgomery County, NC went without power for an average of 122.1 hours, a total of 615K customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 40th 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 Montgomery 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 14:15 | October 15, 2018 00:00 | 3d 9h | 8,564 | 159K |
| 2 | September 15, 2018 04:00 | September 20, 2018 21:15 | 5d 17h | 6,620 | 301K |
| 3 | April 15, 2018 19:15 | April 16, 2018 08:30 | 13h 15m | 4,382 | 13K |
| 4 | September 14, 2018 05:30 | September 14, 2018 21:45 | 16h 15m | 3,717 | 12K |
| 5 | December 9, 2018 13:30 | December 11, 2018 16:45 | 2d 3h | 3,421 | 35K |
| 6 | December 21, 2018 14:45 | December 22, 2018 03:45 | 13h | 2,209 | 13K |
| 7 | August 8, 2018 23:15 | August 9, 2018 06:45 | 7h 30m | 1,977 | 7,014 |
| 8 | June 27, 2018 21:45 | June 28, 2018 10:00 | 12h 15m | 1,529 | 12K |
| 9 | January 17, 2018 14:45 | January 18, 2018 22:15 | 1d 7h | 1,444 | 8,661 |
| 10 | June 26, 2018 09:30 | June 26, 2018 15:45 | 6h 15m | 1,364 | 1,811 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 70 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 Montgomery 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 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2018 | 10.9 hrs | 1.77 | 2.0 hrs | 1.07 |
| Pee Dee Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 34.1 hrs | 5.31 | 3.1 hrs | 2.26 |
| Randolph Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 15.9 hrs | 4.10 | 2.2 hrs | 1.50 |
| 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 ÷ 5,038 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. Montgomery County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Montgomery 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/montgomery-county