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2018 Randolph County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Randolph County, NC went without power for an average of 44.5 hours, a total of 1.4M customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 131st 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 Randolph 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 13:30 | October 17, 2018 06:30 | 5d 17h | 29,139 | 921K |
| 2 | December 9, 2018 08:30 | December 12, 2018 02:15 | 2d 17h | 12,664 | 135K |
| 3 | September 15, 2018 04:00 | September 19, 2018 15:15 | 4d 11h | 5,128 | 95K |
| 4 | May 10, 2018 23:00 | May 11, 2018 16:45 | 17h 45m | 2,950 | 11K |
| 5 | March 2, 2018 06:45 | March 3, 2018 12:45 | 1d 6h | 2,454 | 11K |
| 6 | July 22, 2018 20:30 | July 23, 2018 23:45 | 1d 3h | 2,396 | 8,716 |
| 7 | September 14, 2018 05:30 | September 14, 2018 21:45 | 16h 15m | 2,355 | 11K |
| 8 | June 23, 2018 20:15 | June 24, 2018 07:15 | 11h | 2,128 | 21K |
| 9 | April 15, 2018 16:00 | April 16, 2018 19:30 | 1d 3h | 2,077 | 9,708 |
| 10 | August 8, 2018 00:15 | August 10, 2018 04:15 | 2d 4h | 1,812 | 9,973 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 114 reached 100+ customers, 25 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 Randolph 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 Carolinas, LLC | 2018 | 13.1 hrs | 1.81 | 3.7 hrs | 1.19 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2018 | 10.9 hrs | 1.77 | 2.0 hrs | 1.07 |
| Central Electric Membership Corp. - (NC) | 2018 | 22.4 hrs | - | 5.6 hrs | - |
| Randolph Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 15.9 hrs | 4.10 | 2.2 hrs | 1.50 |
| Town of High Point | 2018 | 12.1 hrs | 3.44 | 2.7 hrs | 1.88 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 31,255 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. Randolph County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Randolph 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/randolph-county