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2018 Northampton County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Northampton County, NC went without power for an average of 8.4 hours, a total of 51K customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 72nd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 670th 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 Northampton 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 | July 28, 2018 07:00 | July 29, 2018 02:00 | 19h | 2,097 | 5,907 |
| 2 | September 4, 2018 13:30 | September 4, 2018 18:00 | 4h 30m | 2,094 | 2,622 |
| 3 | July 28, 2018 00:30 | July 28, 2018 05:45 | 5h 15m | 1,409 | 1,940 |
| 4 | January 7, 2018 06:45 | January 8, 2018 05:00 | 22h 15m | 1,054 | 4,102 |
| 5 | June 3, 2018 18:45 | June 3, 2018 22:15 | 3h 30m | 803 | 2,811 |
| 6 | August 15, 2018 20:15 | August 15, 2018 23:45 | 3h 30m | 746 | 650 |
| 7 | October 11, 2018 20:00 | October 13, 2018 22:15 | 2d 2h | 704 | 12K |
| 8 | March 2, 2018 08:30 | March 3, 2018 16:30 | 1d 8h | 592 | 1,887 |
| 9 | June 2, 2018 04:15 | June 2, 2018 15:15 | 11h | 553 | 1,008 |
| 10 | March 7, 2018 02:00 | March 7, 2018 05:30 | 3h 30m | 513 | 1,792 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 23 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 Northampton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2018 | 24.8 hrs | 3.48 | 3.7 hrs | 2.12 |
| Roanoke Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 3.5 hrs | 1.54 | 1.9 hrs | 1.02 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,048 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. Northampton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Northampton 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/northampton-county