County annual report · FIPS 37191
2018 Wayne County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Wayne County, NC went without power for an average of 55.1 hours, a total of 994K customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 113th 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 Wayne 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 21, 2018 04:15 | 6d | 19,546 | 792K |
| 2 | September 13, 2018 14:30 | September 14, 2018 21:45 | 1d 7h | 17,193 | 126K |
| 3 | November 4, 2018 12:45 | November 4, 2018 16:00 | 3h 15m | 2,441 | 5,033 |
| 4 | July 23, 2018 04:45 | July 23, 2018 19:30 | 14h 45m | 1,678 | 5,515 |
| 5 | April 29, 2018 05:00 | April 29, 2018 06:00 | 1h | 1,463 | 1,463 |
| 6 | October 29, 2018 18:30 | October 29, 2018 22:30 | 4h | 1,356 | 2,377 |
| 7 | November 28, 2018 09:30 | November 28, 2018 21:45 | 12h 15m | 1,126 | 517 |
| 8 | June 24, 2018 18:45 | June 25, 2018 03:45 | 9h | 1,110 | 1,845 |
| 9 | April 17, 2018 07:30 | April 17, 2018 13:00 | 5h 30m | 961 | 2,646 |
| 10 | October 15, 2018 07:00 | October 16, 2018 00:15 | 17h 15m | 914 | 2,774 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 56 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Wayne 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 |
| City of Wilson - (NC) | 2018 | 40 min | 0.70 | 32 min | 0.60 |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (NC) | 2018 | 51.3 hrs | 2.31 | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pitt & Greene Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Stantonsburg - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Fremont - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Pikeville - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 18,042 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. Wayne County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wayne 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/wayne-county