County annual report · FIPS 37123
2017 Montgomery County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Montgomery County, NC went without power for an average of 14.7 hours, a total of 74K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.0 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 374th 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 Montgomery 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 | January 7, 2017 08:00 | January 8, 2017 07:45 | 23h 45m | 2,413 | 16K |
| 2 | April 22, 2017 18:00 | April 23, 2017 09:45 | 15h 45m | 2,250 | 2,449 |
| 3 | June 4, 2017 16:00 | June 5, 2017 07:15 | 15h 15m | 1,894 | 3,854 |
| 4 | September 2, 2017 05:15 | September 2, 2017 06:15 | 1h | 1,441 | 1,420 |
| 5 | December 4, 2017 20:00 | December 4, 2017 20:15 | 15m | 1,439 | 360 |
| 6 | May 5, 2017 07:00 | May 5, 2017 21:45 | 14h 45m | 1,367 | 1,434 |
| 7 | December 23, 2017 19:30 | December 23, 2017 23:00 | 3h 30m | 1,354 | 3,046 |
| 8 | May 30, 2017 00:00 | May 30, 2017 07:00 | 7h | 1,239 | 7,544 |
| 9 | July 20, 2017 13:15 | July 20, 2017 18:45 | 5h 30m | 1,136 | 1,282 |
| 10 | December 29, 2017 14:30 | December 29, 2017 18:00 | 3h 30m | 1,133 | 1,008 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 49 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 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 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2017 | 3.0 hrs | 1.26 | 1.6 hrs | 1.02 |
| Pee Dee Electric Member Corp | 2017 | 4.5 hrs | 2.56 | 2.6 hrs | 2.00 |
| Randolph Electric Member Corp | 2017 | 2.6 hrs | 1.77 | 1.9 hrs | 1.57 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/montgomery-county