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2017 Franklin County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Franklin County, NC went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 67K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.0 hours). That ranks 69th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1488th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Franklin County, 2017
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 23, 2017 21:45 | July 24, 2017 09:15 | 11h 30m | 1,930 | 4,829 |
| 2 | April 6, 2017 15:00 | April 6, 2017 21:45 | 6h 45m | 1,452 | 2,405 |
| 3 | May 5, 2017 10:15 | May 6, 2017 00:30 | 14h 15m | 1,409 | 2,042 |
| 4 | January 8, 2017 05:30 | January 9, 2017 06:45 | 1d 1h | 1,289 | 15K |
| 5 | December 11, 2017 22:45 | December 12, 2017 02:45 | 4h | 1,098 | 3,137 |
| 6 | July 28, 2017 21:00 | July 29, 2017 15:15 | 18h 15m | 814 | 1,514 |
| 7 | August 28, 2017 15:15 | August 28, 2017 19:15 | 4h | 783 | 981 |
| 8 | June 4, 2017 23:30 | June 5, 2017 13:45 | 14h 15m | 651 | 1,034 |
| 9 | January 25, 2017 16:15 | January 25, 2017 19:00 | 2h 45m | 641 | 1,078 |
| 10 | January 3, 2017 04:30 | January 3, 2017 07:00 | 2h 30m | 640 | 801 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 61 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Franklin County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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) | 2017 | 3.2 hrs | 1.52 | 2.7 hrs | 1.47 |
| Wake Electric Membership Corp | 2017 | 87 min | 1.47 | 73 min | 1.30 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Louisburg - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 27,296 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin County, NC annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/north-carolina/franklin-county