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2018 Pamlico County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Pamlico County, NC went without power for an average of 603.8 hours, a total of 1.1M customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 7th 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 Pamlico 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 28, 2018 14:00 | 13d 10h | 10,719 | 784K |
| 2 | September 13, 2018 15:30 | September 14, 2018 21:45 | 1d 6h | 10,506 | 195K |
| 3 | October 11, 2018 16:15 | October 14, 2018 04:45 | 2d 12h | 3,317 | 53K |
| 4 | June 24, 2018 19:45 | June 25, 2018 05:30 | 9h 45m | 2,720 | 7,172 |
| 5 | February 7, 2018 12:45 | February 7, 2018 18:30 | 5h 45m | 2,045 | 2,086 |
| 6 | December 21, 2018 23:00 | December 22, 2018 04:15 | 5h 15m | 2,009 | 1,415 |
| 7 | April 24, 2018 16:00 | April 24, 2018 22:15 | 6h 15m | 1,887 | 1,058 |
| 8 | March 2, 2018 15:45 | March 3, 2018 04:45 | 13h | 1,646 | 3,356 |
| 9 | January 14, 2018 23:00 | January 15, 2018 01:45 | 2h 45m | 1,572 | 3,619 |
| 10 | March 2, 2018 13:15 | March 2, 2018 15:00 | 1h 45m | 1,339 | 401 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 43 reached 100+ customers, 17 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Pamlico 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 |
| Tideland Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 56.8 hrs | 6.30 | 7.7 hrs | 3.98 |
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 ÷ 1,811 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. Pamlico County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pamlico 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/pamlico-county