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2017 Vance County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Vance County, NC went without power for an average of 53.2 hours, a total of 46K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.0 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 64th 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 Vance 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 | March 1, 2017 17:30 | March 1, 2017 23:45 | 6h 15m | 2,067 | 3,140 |
| 2 | May 18, 2017 01:45 | May 18, 2017 04:15 | 2h 30m | 1,792 | 2,032 |
| 3 | May 1, 2017 19:00 | May 1, 2017 21:45 | 2h 45m | 1,323 | 456 |
| 4 | June 17, 2017 19:30 | June 18, 2017 01:15 | 5h 45m | 1,286 | 2,266 |
| 5 | October 9, 2017 17:15 | October 9, 2017 23:15 | 6h | 1,259 | 326 |
| 6 | February 9, 2017 08:45 | February 9, 2017 14:30 | 5h 45m | 1,253 | 2,853 |
| 7 | October 23, 2017 12:15 | October 23, 2017 21:00 | 8h 45m | 1,215 | 920 |
| 8 | July 6, 2017 07:30 | July 6, 2017 12:15 | 4h 45m | 1,208 | 2,454 |
| 9 | January 13, 2017 19:45 | January 13, 2017 23:15 | 3h 30m | 1,134 | 1,699 |
| 10 | April 29, 2017 21:15 | April 30, 2017 04:00 | 6h 45m | 1,007 | 3,497 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 35 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 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 |
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2017 | 3.2 hrs | 1.94 | 2.8 hrs | 1.85 |
| Wake Electric Membership Corp | 2017 | 87 min | 1.47 | 73 min | 1.30 |
| 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 ÷ 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, 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/vance-county