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2015 Vance County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Vance County, NC went without power for an average of 98.9 hours, a total of 85K customer-hours (North Carolina average 7.5 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 13th 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 Vance 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 | July 1, 2015 00:15 | July 2, 2015 08:30 | 1d 8h | 3,281 | 16K |
| 2 | February 15, 2015 00:45 | February 16, 2015 04:30 | 1d 3h | 2,928 | 19K |
| 3 | October 19, 2015 10:15 | October 19, 2015 17:15 | 7h | 2,803 | 2,312 |
| 4 | February 27, 2015 15:15 | February 27, 2015 20:45 | 5h 30m | 2,762 | 698 |
| 5 | October 1, 2015 10:15 | October 1, 2015 10:45 | 30m | 1,514 | 675 |
| 6 | June 27, 2015 05:00 | June 27, 2015 15:00 | 10h | 1,205 | 3,804 |
| 7 | October 2, 2015 20:00 | October 2, 2015 20:30 | 30m | 1,205 | 302 |
| 8 | October 3, 2015 08:00 | October 3, 2015 08:45 | 45m | 1,138 | 611 |
| 9 | April 24, 2015 01:00 | April 24, 2015 04:45 | 3h 45m | 1,136 | 1,181 |
| 10 | June 18, 2015 01:30 | June 18, 2015 15:45 | 14h 15m | 831 | 1,303 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 59 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 Vance 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 |
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2015 | 5.5 hrs | 2.18 | 3.0 hrs | 1.59 |
| Wake Electric Membership Corp | 2015 | 4.3 hrs | 1.58 | 50 min | 0.94 |
| 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 ÷ 863 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. Vance County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Vance 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/vance-county