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2018 Nash County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Nash County, NC went without power for an average of 10.6 hours, a total of 279K customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 517th 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 Nash 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 13:45 | October 15, 2018 17:45 | 4d 4h | 8,266 | 150K |
| 2 | August 8, 2018 23:45 | August 9, 2018 07:45 | 8h | 3,789 | 1,448 |
| 3 | September 13, 2018 23:15 | September 14, 2018 21:45 | 22h 30m | 2,733 | 16K |
| 4 | July 22, 2018 21:15 | July 23, 2018 02:45 | 5h 30m | 2,605 | 2,934 |
| 5 | April 15, 2018 23:15 | April 17, 2018 05:45 | 1d 6h | 2,178 | 15K |
| 6 | October 21, 2018 08:15 | October 21, 2018 10:30 | 2h 15m | 2,122 | 2,141 |
| 7 | August 12, 2018 14:00 | August 12, 2018 17:15 | 3h 15m | 1,850 | 1,408 |
| 8 | August 12, 2018 21:30 | August 13, 2018 14:00 | 16h 30m | 1,792 | 1,355 |
| 9 | December 9, 2018 10:15 | December 10, 2018 19:30 | 1d 9h | 1,731 | 14K |
| 10 | August 14, 2018 18:00 | August 15, 2018 10:30 | 16h 30m | 1,577 | 1,329 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 73 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 Nash 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 |
| Edgecombe-Martin County E M C | 2018 | 2.8 hrs | 1.16 | 2.0 hrs | 0.98 |
| City of Wilson - (NC) | 2018 | 40 min | 0.70 | 32 min | 0.60 |
| Wake Electric Membership Corp | 2018 | 4.7 hrs | 1.98 | 73 min | 1.10 |
| Halifax Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 5.9 hrs | 2.25 | 3.7 hrs | 1.67 |
| City of Rocky Mount - (NC) | 2018 | 1.5 hrs | 2.46 | 51 min | 1.44 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Sharpsburg - (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 ÷ 26,243 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. Nash County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nash 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/nash-county