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2019 Carteret County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Carteret County, NC went without power for an average of 19.7 hours, a total of 775K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 220th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Carteret County, 2019
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 5, 2019 10:30 | September 9, 2019 04:00 | 3d 17h | 37,514 | 654K |
| 2 | July 17, 2019 02:15 | July 17, 2019 04:30 | 2h 15m | 8,736 | 12K |
| 3 | January 26, 2019 23:30 | January 27, 2019 08:15 | 8h 45m | 5,129 | 8,340 |
| 4 | March 31, 2019 05:15 | March 31, 2019 06:00 | 45m | 5,077 | 3,177 |
| 5 | January 6, 2019 06:45 | January 6, 2019 10:45 | 4h | 5,075 | 19K |
| 6 | May 5, 2019 06:45 | May 5, 2019 07:30 | 45m | 5,074 | 3,806 |
| 7 | June 20, 2019 22:30 | June 21, 2019 04:15 | 5h 45m | 2,917 | 4,619 |
| 8 | June 26, 2019 17:15 | June 27, 2019 02:30 | 9h 15m | 2,215 | 3,355 |
| 9 | May 2, 2019 17:45 | May 2, 2019 20:15 | 2h 30m | 1,677 | 842 |
| 10 | August 1, 2019 14:00 | August 2, 2019 01:15 | 11h 15m | 1,381 | 3,810 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 75 reached 100+ customers, 23 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 Carteret County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Carteret-Craven El Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 90% of North Carolina's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 39,432 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. Carteret County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Carteret County, NC annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/north-carolina/carteret-county