County annual report · FIPS 37179
2018 Union County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Union County, NC went without power for an average of 9.3 hours, a total of 609K customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 70th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 601st 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 Union 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 | May 23, 2018 14:00 | May 23, 2018 15:45 | 1h 45m | 51,973 | 13K |
| 2 | May 23, 2018 12:45 | May 23, 2018 13:15 | 30m | 51,920 | 13K |
| 3 | October 11, 2018 08:45 | October 15, 2018 02:30 | 3d 17h | 20,536 | 160K |
| 4 | December 9, 2018 10:45 | December 13, 2018 09:15 | 3d 22h | 6,613 | 49K |
| 5 | September 15, 2018 04:00 | September 19, 2018 01:15 | 3d 21h | 6,514 | 178K |
| 6 | October 5, 2018 13:15 | October 5, 2018 17:15 | 4h | 3,790 | 7,220 |
| 7 | June 1, 2018 23:00 | June 3, 2018 15:15 | 1d 16h | 3,755 | 13K |
| 8 | April 15, 2018 13:45 | April 17, 2018 21:45 | 2d 8h | 3,395 | 15K |
| 9 | September 21, 2018 12:15 | September 22, 2018 06:15 | 18h | 3,294 | 9,722 |
| 10 | June 25, 2018 12:30 | June 27, 2018 21:45 | 2d 9h | 3,212 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 100 reached 100+ customers, 32 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Union 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 Carolinas, LLC | 2018 | 13.1 hrs | 1.81 | 3.7 hrs | 1.19 |
| Pee Dee Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 34.1 hrs | 5.31 | 3.1 hrs | 2.26 |
| Union Electric Membership Corp - (NC) | 2018 | 4.6 hrs | 1.86 | 63 min | 0.85 |
| City of Monroe - (NC) | 2018 | 87 min | 0.73 | 22 min | 0.54 |
| 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 ÷ 65,408 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. Union County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Union 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/union-county