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2017 Person County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Person County, NC went without power for an average of 7.7 hours, a total of 42K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.0 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 688th 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 Person 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 | August 13, 2017 08:00 | August 13, 2017 09:15 | 1h 15m | 4,381 | 4,381 |
| 2 | July 23, 2017 23:45 | July 24, 2017 03:45 | 4h | 2,372 | 1,190 |
| 3 | May 23, 2017 11:30 | May 23, 2017 15:00 | 3h 30m | 2,367 | 1,776 |
| 4 | October 31, 2017 21:00 | November 1, 2017 02:45 | 5h 45m | 1,915 | 2,399 |
| 5 | May 25, 2017 07:15 | May 25, 2017 10:15 | 3h | 1,863 | 4,070 |
| 6 | December 17, 2017 22:45 | December 18, 2017 03:00 | 4h 15m | 1,815 | 2,723 |
| 7 | January 26, 2017 18:30 | January 26, 2017 23:30 | 5h | 1,352 | 1,723 |
| 8 | April 6, 2017 14:00 | April 7, 2017 03:45 | 13h 45m | 1,031 | 1,349 |
| 9 | July 6, 2017 02:30 | July 6, 2017 15:30 | 13h | 990 | 1,358 |
| 10 | April 23, 2017 05:15 | April 23, 2017 05:45 | 30m | 980 | 490 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 48 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 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 |
| Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC | 2017 | 8.8 hrs | 1.52 | 3.1 hrs | 1.11 |
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2017 | 3.2 hrs | 1.94 | 2.8 hrs | 1.85 |
| Piedmont Electric Member Corp | 2017 | 1.8 hrs | 1.14 | 1.8 hrs | 1.14 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/person-county