County annual report · FIPS 37123
2015 Montgomery County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Montgomery County, NC went without power for an average of 14.7 hours, a total of 74K customer-hours (North Carolina average 7.5 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 174th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Montgomery County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 28, 2015 15:15 | January 28, 2015 18:00 | 2h 45m | 3,661 | 3,302 |
| 2 | June 2, 2015 20:30 | June 3, 2015 09:45 | 13h 15m | 2,254 | 11K |
| 3 | June 17, 2015 19:30 | June 18, 2015 18:30 | 23h | 2,178 | 6,458 |
| 4 | March 5, 2015 18:45 | March 5, 2015 21:30 | 2h 45m | 1,924 | 3,910 |
| 5 | January 27, 2015 16:00 | January 27, 2015 17:15 | 1h 15m | 1,905 | 2,381 |
| 6 | May 6, 2015 10:30 | May 6, 2015 21:15 | 10h 45m | 1,446 | 6,566 |
| 7 | February 26, 2015 04:45 | February 26, 2015 18:15 | 13h 30m | 1,425 | 2,649 |
| 8 | September 1, 2015 20:15 | September 1, 2015 21:30 | 1h 15m | 1,134 | 1,416 |
| 9 | June 30, 2015 22:15 | July 1, 2015 09:15 | 11h | 1,128 | 2,251 |
| 10 | January 29, 2015 12:15 | January 29, 2015 12:30 | 15m | 1,082 | 271 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 41 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Montgomery County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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) | 2015 | 4.8 hrs | 1.90 | 3.0 hrs | 1.65 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2015 | 2.2 hrs | 1.12 | 1.6 hrs | 0.96 |
| Pee Dee Electric Member Corp | 2015 | 2.6 hrs | 1.85 | 2.2 hrs | 1.74 |
| Randolph Electric Member Corp | 2015 | 2.8 hrs | 1.93 | 2.2 hrs | 1.55 |
| 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 n/a of North Carolina's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,038 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. Montgomery County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Montgomery County, NC annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/north-carolina/montgomery-county