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2019 Franklin County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Franklin County, NC went without power for an average of 4.4 hours, a total of 120K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 71st worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1219th 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 Franklin 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 | February 6, 2019 09:45 | February 6, 2019 12:45 | 3h | 5,942 | 5,944 |
| 2 | January 20, 2019 15:30 | January 20, 2019 20:00 | 4h 30m | 2,942 | 1,487 |
| 3 | December 19, 2019 13:00 | December 19, 2019 18:00 | 5h | 2,684 | 1,282 |
| 4 | July 17, 2019 13:15 | July 17, 2019 20:00 | 6h 45m | 2,386 | 619 |
| 5 | August 13, 2019 18:15 | August 15, 2019 03:00 | 1d 8h | 2,194 | 19K |
| 6 | January 24, 2019 20:00 | January 24, 2019 22:00 | 2h | 2,160 | 2,974 |
| 7 | June 8, 2019 08:45 | June 8, 2019 22:00 | 13h 15m | 1,893 | 2,120 |
| 8 | June 20, 2019 14:30 | June 21, 2019 22:30 | 1d 8h | 1,573 | 11K |
| 9 | August 19, 2019 10:30 | August 20, 2019 05:00 | 18h 30m | 1,318 | 2,718 |
| 10 | December 20, 2019 13:15 | December 20, 2019 16:30 | 3h 15m | 1,302 | 346 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 75 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Franklin 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 |
| Wake Electric Membership Corp | 2018 | 4.7 hrs | 1.98 | 73 min | 1.10 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Louisburg - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 27,296 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county