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2018 Wilkes County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Wilkes County, NC went without power for an average of 38.4 hours, a total of 309K customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 151st 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 Wilkes 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 | December 9, 2018 09:15 | December 12, 2018 23:30 | 3d 14h | 3,772 | 122K |
| 2 | March 2, 2018 03:30 | March 4, 2018 02:30 | 1d 23h | 3,622 | 60K |
| 3 | November 24, 2018 08:30 | November 25, 2018 16:45 | 1d 8h | 2,816 | 23K |
| 4 | October 10, 2018 19:15 | October 13, 2018 22:00 | 3d 2h | 1,413 | 16K |
| 5 | September 16, 2018 08:00 | September 18, 2018 03:30 | 1d 19h | 1,311 | 6,841 |
| 6 | August 4, 2018 21:45 | August 5, 2018 22:30 | 1d | 1,221 | 2,815 |
| 7 | July 2, 2018 00:30 | July 2, 2018 06:30 | 6h | 1,203 | 3,311 |
| 8 | June 11, 2018 18:45 | June 12, 2018 02:00 | 7h 15m | 1,044 | 1,058 |
| 9 | December 4, 2018 17:15 | December 4, 2018 21:45 | 4h 30m | 1,039 | 1,550 |
| 10 | October 25, 2018 18:15 | October 25, 2018 21:15 | 3h | 1,021 | 1,028 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 63 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Wilkes 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 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2018 | 10.9 hrs | 1.77 | 2.0 hrs | 1.07 |
| Blue Ridge Elec Member Corp - (NC) | 2018 | 5.7 hrs | 1.87 | 76 min | 0.96 |
| Surry-Yadkin Elec Member Corp | 2018 | 8.0 hrs | 1.89 | 2.5 hrs | 1.05 |
| 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 ÷ 8,042 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. Wilkes County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wilkes 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/wilkes-county