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2015 Person County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Person County, NC went without power for an average of 16.4 hours, a total of 90K customer-hours (North Carolina average 7.5 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 153rd 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 Person 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 | June 20, 2015 23:30 | June 21, 2015 22:30 | 23h | 3,350 | 12K |
| 2 | June 25, 2015 22:00 | June 26, 2015 04:30 | 6h 30m | 2,546 | 3,738 |
| 3 | December 9, 2015 07:00 | December 9, 2015 14:00 | 7h | 2,357 | 2,936 |
| 4 | August 8, 2015 01:45 | August 8, 2015 05:30 | 3h 45m | 2,351 | 3,091 |
| 5 | October 3, 2015 22:45 | October 4, 2015 07:45 | 9h | 1,834 | 3,305 |
| 6 | August 11, 2015 21:30 | August 12, 2015 08:00 | 10h 30m | 1,653 | 4,216 |
| 7 | February 26, 2015 06:30 | February 27, 2015 21:30 | 1d 15h | 1,546 | 17K |
| 8 | February 15, 2015 00:00 | February 16, 2015 06:30 | 1d 6h | 1,214 | 6,927 |
| 9 | June 18, 2015 00:00 | June 19, 2015 02:00 | 1d 2h | 1,118 | 9,486 |
| 10 | August 19, 2015 14:45 | August 19, 2015 18:00 | 3h 15m | 992 | 2,980 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 38 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Person 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 |
| Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC | 2015 | 5.3 hrs | 1.29 | 2.6 hrs | 1.02 |
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2015 | 5.5 hrs | 2.18 | 3.0 hrs | 1.59 |
| Piedmont Electric Member Corp | 2015 | 5.2 hrs | 1.81 | 1.7 hrs | 1.13 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 ÷ 5,498 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. Person County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Person 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/person-county