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2019 Alamance County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Alamance County, NC went without power for an average of 227.9 hours, a total of 211K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 12th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Alamance County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 20, 2019 10:45 | June 21, 2019 20:45 | 1d 10h | 5,397 | 22K |
| 2 | September 14, 2019 12:15 | September 15, 2019 02:45 | 14h 30m | 3,490 | 20K |
| 3 | July 25, 2019 13:15 | July 26, 2019 08:30 | 19h 15m | 3,383 | 20K |
| 4 | September 19, 2019 10:30 | September 19, 2019 19:45 | 9h 15m | 3,121 | 2,024 |
| 5 | September 28, 2019 02:45 | September 28, 2019 16:45 | 14h | 2,626 | 2,984 |
| 6 | May 15, 2019 11:15 | May 16, 2019 06:15 | 19h | 2,136 | 1,745 |
| 7 | June 6, 2019 11:45 | June 7, 2019 01:45 | 14h | 2,125 | 7,263 |
| 8 | April 27, 2019 14:45 | April 28, 2019 10:30 | 19h 45m | 1,648 | 16K |
| 9 | April 28, 2019 14:45 | April 29, 2019 06:00 | 15h 15m | 1,585 | 1,370 |
| 10 | July 22, 2019 07:45 | July 24, 2019 07:00 | 1d 23h | 1,533 | 5,998 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 77 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Alamance County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 |
| Piedmont Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 30.8 hrs | 2.81 | 2.5 hrs | 1.26 |
| Randolph Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 15.9 hrs | 4.10 | 2.2 hrs | 1.50 |
| 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 90% of North Carolina's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 925 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. Alamance County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Alamance County, NC annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/north-carolina/alamance-county