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2017 Rockingham County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Rockingham County, NC went without power for an average of 35.3 hours, a total of 333K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.0 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 137th 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 Rockingham 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 | May 31, 2017 16:45 | June 2, 2017 07:45 | 1d 15h | 9,008 | 130K |
| 2 | December 8, 2017 18:15 | December 10, 2017 14:00 | 1d 19h | 2,764 | 35K |
| 3 | July 12, 2017 04:30 | July 12, 2017 10:45 | 6h 15m | 2,601 | 9,106 |
| 4 | June 17, 2017 02:45 | June 20, 2017 23:15 | 3d 20h | 2,474 | 24K |
| 5 | August 14, 2017 17:45 | August 15, 2017 05:45 | 12h | 1,736 | 463 |
| 6 | May 20, 2017 22:30 | May 21, 2017 16:30 | 18h | 1,708 | 9,068 |
| 7 | February 20, 2017 13:45 | February 20, 2017 18:45 | 5h | 1,569 | 4,680 |
| 8 | July 25, 2017 12:45 | July 26, 2017 00:45 | 12h | 1,473 | 6,198 |
| 9 | April 24, 2017 09:00 | April 24, 2017 22:30 | 13h 30m | 1,294 | 2,793 |
| 10 | April 28, 2017 02:45 | April 28, 2017 19:15 | 16h 30m | 1,214 | 2,356 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 76 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Rockingham 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 Carolinas, LLC | 2017 | 8.8 hrs | 1.52 | 3.1 hrs | 1.11 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2017 | 3.0 hrs | 1.26 | 1.6 hrs | 1.02 |
| 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 ÷ 9,416 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. Rockingham County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rockingham 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/rockingham-county