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2018 Person County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Person County, NC went without power for an average of 80.9 hours, a total of 445K customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 72nd of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Person County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 11, 2018 18:30 | October 15, 2018 20:30 | 4d 2h | 13,866 | 371K |
| 2 | January 23, 2018 16:45 | January 24, 2018 00:15 | 7h 30m | 3,990 | 6,494 |
| 3 | September 23, 2018 17:00 | September 23, 2018 23:45 | 6h 45m | 2,384 | 2,314 |
| 4 | April 15, 2018 19:45 | April 16, 2018 03:45 | 8h | 2,146 | 1,731 |
| 5 | March 2, 2018 05:15 | March 3, 2018 02:30 | 21h 15m | 2,068 | 4,917 |
| 6 | June 20, 2018 11:15 | June 20, 2018 14:15 | 3h | 2,064 | 1,034 |
| 7 | August 3, 2018 16:00 | August 4, 2018 07:00 | 15h | 1,866 | 1,720 |
| 8 | December 9, 2018 13:00 | December 11, 2018 21:45 | 2d 8h | 1,627 | 18K |
| 9 | August 19, 2018 23:45 | August 20, 2018 04:00 | 4h 15m | 1,177 | 1,847 |
| 10 | September 15, 2018 04:00 | September 18, 2018 18:30 | 3d 14h | 1,160 | 1,779 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 43 reached 100+ customers, 10 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 2018, 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) | 2018 | 43.0 hrs | 2.71 | 2.6 hrs | 1.33 |
| Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC | 2018 | 13.1 hrs | 1.81 | 3.7 hrs | 1.19 |
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2018 | 24.8 hrs | 3.48 | 3.7 hrs | 2.12 |
| Piedmont Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 30.8 hrs | 2.81 | 2.5 hrs | 1.26 |
| 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 82% of North Carolina's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/north-carolina/person-county