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2018 Richmond County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Richmond County, NC went without power for an average of 61.1 hours, a total of 770K customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 103rd 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 Richmond 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 22, 2018 04:15 | 7d | 18,446 | 638K |
| 2 | September 13, 2018 20:45 | September 14, 2018 21:45 | 1d 1h | 10,490 | 47K |
| 3 | September 7, 2018 12:00 | September 7, 2018 14:45 | 2h 45m | 5,222 | 6,527 |
| 4 | December 15, 2018 06:30 | December 15, 2018 09:00 | 2h 30m | 4,283 | 3,011 |
| 5 | April 20, 2018 16:30 | April 20, 2018 19:15 | 2h 45m | 2,967 | 1,488 |
| 6 | October 25, 2018 13:00 | October 25, 2018 23:30 | 10h 30m | 2,902 | 749 |
| 7 | November 8, 2018 14:15 | November 8, 2018 15:00 | 45m | 2,898 | 726 |
| 8 | January 29, 2018 01:45 | January 29, 2018 06:45 | 5h | 2,290 | 4,028 |
| 9 | July 30, 2018 13:00 | July 30, 2018 19:45 | 6h 45m | 2,196 | 634 |
| 10 | July 22, 2018 01:30 | July 22, 2018 15:45 | 14h 15m | 2,193 | 4,201 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 60 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 Richmond 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 |
| Pee Dee Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 34.1 hrs | 5.31 | 3.1 hrs | 2.26 |
| 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 ÷ 12,592 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. Richmond County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richmond 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/richmond-county