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2018 Vance County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Vance County, NC went without power for an average of 563.4 hours, a total of 486K customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 8th 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 Vance 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 18:00 | October 16, 2018 00:30 | 4d 6h | 10,759 | 348K |
| 2 | February 4, 2018 20:45 | February 5, 2018 02:45 | 6h | 7,937 | 13K |
| 3 | December 9, 2018 17:15 | December 11, 2018 00:45 | 1d 7h | 5,262 | 35K |
| 4 | March 2, 2018 06:15 | March 3, 2018 11:00 | 1d 4h | 4,527 | 26K |
| 5 | September 14, 2018 01:00 | September 14, 2018 21:45 | 20h 45m | 2,423 | 15K |
| 6 | May 22, 2018 15:30 | May 22, 2018 16:45 | 1h 15m | 2,243 | 1,678 |
| 7 | December 5, 2018 16:15 | December 5, 2018 17:45 | 1h 30m | 1,831 | 459 |
| 8 | February 6, 2018 16:15 | February 6, 2018 17:45 | 1h 30m | 1,781 | 2,671 |
| 9 | June 11, 2018 03:30 | June 11, 2018 07:30 | 4h | 1,505 | 2,260 |
| 10 | November 13, 2018 02:15 | November 13, 2018 05:15 | 3h | 1,343 | 3,250 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 47 reached 100+ customers, 17 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Vance 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 |
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2018 | 24.8 hrs | 3.48 | 3.7 hrs | 2.12 |
| Wake Electric Membership Corp | 2018 | 4.7 hrs | 1.98 | 73 min | 1.10 |
| 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 ÷ 863 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. Vance County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Vance 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/vance-county