County annual report · FIPS 37147
2018 Pitt County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Pitt County, NC went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 196K customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 85th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1681st 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 Pitt 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 21, 2018 22:30 | 6d 18h | 1,861 | 169K |
| 2 | September 13, 2018 20:00 | September 14, 2018 21:45 | 1d 1h | 1,581 | 17K |
| 3 | March 14, 2018 04:30 | March 14, 2018 06:30 | 2h | 580 | 1,053 |
| 4 | October 11, 2018 19:00 | October 13, 2018 03:00 | 1d 8h | 394 | 4,956 |
| 5 | September 12, 2018 23:15 | September 13, 2018 01:15 | 2h | 326 | 496 |
| 6 | August 3, 2018 21:45 | August 4, 2018 02:45 | 5h | 244 | 685 |
| 7 | June 24, 2018 19:45 | June 25, 2018 01:45 | 6h | 214 | 230 |
| 8 | December 17, 2018 21:30 | December 17, 2018 23:15 | 1h 45m | 166 | 48 |
| 9 | May 8, 2018 13:45 | May 8, 2018 22:15 | 8h 30m | 164 | 192 |
| 10 | July 12, 2018 21:15 | July 13, 2018 01:15 | 4h | 155 | 527 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 11 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Pitt 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 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pitt & Greene Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Washington - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Winterville - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Greenville Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Ayden - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Farmville - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Fountain - (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 ÷ 80,606 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. Pitt County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pitt 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/pitt-county