County annual report · FIPS 37119
2019 Mecklenburg County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Mecklenburg County, NC went without power for an average of 76.0 hours, a total of 2.1M customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 36th 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 Mecklenburg 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 12:15 | June 27, 2019 06:45 | 6d 18h | 33,764 | 643K |
| 2 | April 24, 2019 08:15 | April 29, 2019 09:15 | 5d 1h | 8,852 | 84K |
| 3 | September 23, 2019 11:30 | September 25, 2019 10:00 | 1d 22h | 8,377 | 3,781 |
| 4 | October 30, 2019 11:15 | November 3, 2019 21:30 | 4d 10h | 7,156 | 70K |
| 5 | August 19, 2019 10:45 | August 26, 2019 03:00 | 6d 16h | 6,957 | 84K |
| 6 | May 23, 2019 10:00 | May 27, 2019 07:00 | 3d 21h | 6,830 | 15K |
| 7 | December 17, 2019 11:00 | December 21, 2019 09:15 | 3d 22h | 6,782 | 20K |
| 8 | July 31, 2019 12:45 | August 3, 2019 10:30 | 2d 21h | 6,172 | 60K |
| 9 | July 22, 2019 10:30 | July 24, 2019 07:15 | 1d 20h | 6,086 | 18K |
| 10 | May 11, 2019 12:15 | May 14, 2019 08:00 | 2d 19h | 6,048 | 26K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 158 reached 100+ customers, 73 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 Mecklenburg 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 Carolinas, LLC | 2018 | 13.1 hrs | 1.81 | 3.7 hrs | 1.19 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2018 | 10.9 hrs | 1.77 | 2.0 hrs | 1.07 |
| York Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 2.1 hrs | 1.22 | 83 min | 0.91 |
| Union Electric Membership Corp - (NC) | 2018 | 4.6 hrs | 1.86 | 63 min | 0.85 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Cornelius - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Huntersville - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Pineville - (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 ÷ 28,172 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. Mecklenburg County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mecklenburg 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/mecklenburg-county