County annual report · FIPS 37187
2018 Washington County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Washington County, NC went without power for an average of 9.1 hours, a total of 37K customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 71st worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 621st 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 Washington 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 | June 8, 2018 00:45 | June 8, 2018 04:30 | 3h 45m | 1,668 | 4,297 |
| 2 | June 20, 2018 23:45 | June 21, 2018 10:15 | 10h 30m | 1,172 | 791 |
| 3 | October 31, 2018 12:00 | October 31, 2018 15:45 | 3h 45m | 997 | 1,751 |
| 4 | March 2, 2018 10:15 | March 3, 2018 12:15 | 1d 2h | 737 | 1,672 |
| 5 | September 13, 2018 15:30 | September 14, 2018 21:45 | 1d 6h | 605 | 7,198 |
| 6 | February 23, 2018 16:00 | February 24, 2018 03:15 | 11h 15m | 509 | 3,609 |
| 7 | October 11, 2018 19:45 | October 12, 2018 20:00 | 1d | 452 | 2,713 |
| 8 | June 21, 2018 12:45 | June 22, 2018 00:45 | 12h | 325 | 680 |
| 9 | June 2, 2018 00:00 | June 2, 2018 14:15 | 14h 15m | 318 | 3,242 |
| 10 | April 20, 2018 15:45 | April 20, 2018 16:15 | 30m | 317 | 159 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 24 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 Washington 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tideland Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 56.8 hrs | 6.30 | 7.7 hrs | 3.98 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 4,062 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county