County annual report · FIPS 37141
2018 Pender County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Pender County, NC went without power for an average of 164.9 hours, a total of 2.4M customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 29th 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 Pender 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 30, 2018 00:30 | 14d 20h | 20,660 | 2.1M |
| 2 | September 13, 2018 13:30 | September 14, 2018 21:45 | 1d 8h | 18,375 | 244K |
| 3 | October 3, 2018 08:45 | October 3, 2018 12:00 | 3h 15m | 6,666 | 13K |
| 4 | November 12, 2018 19:00 | November 12, 2018 22:00 | 3h | 2,805 | 741 |
| 5 | October 11, 2018 11:45 | October 13, 2018 07:15 | 1d 19h | 2,481 | 21K |
| 6 | April 30, 2018 12:30 | April 30, 2018 13:45 | 1h 15m | 2,036 | 2,066 |
| 7 | October 16, 2018 15:00 | October 17, 2018 05:45 | 14h 45m | 1,882 | 5,166 |
| 8 | March 2, 2018 14:30 | March 2, 2018 20:30 | 6h | 1,538 | 2,717 |
| 9 | December 21, 2018 14:15 | December 21, 2018 19:45 | 5h 30m | 1,387 | 862 |
| 10 | May 23, 2018 20:15 | May 23, 2018 21:45 | 1h 30m | 1,364 | 1,024 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 53 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Pender 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 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Four County Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jones-Onslow Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 14,750 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. Pender County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pender 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/pender-county