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2019 Montgomery County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Montgomery County, NC went without power for an average of 14.8 hours, a total of 75K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 340th 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 Montgomery 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 | December 19, 2019 17:15 | December 19, 2019 20:15 | 3h | 3,918 | 986 |
| 2 | June 20, 2019 21:30 | June 21, 2019 09:45 | 12h 15m | 3,351 | 11K |
| 3 | January 5, 2019 05:45 | January 5, 2019 09:15 | 3h 30m | 2,222 | 2,317 |
| 4 | November 23, 2019 03:45 | November 23, 2019 06:30 | 2h 45m | 2,040 | 5,075 |
| 5 | January 5, 2019 18:00 | January 5, 2019 19:45 | 1h 45m | 2,035 | 3,053 |
| 6 | April 19, 2019 18:00 | April 20, 2019 08:15 | 14h 15m | 1,987 | 15K |
| 7 | April 26, 2019 19:45 | April 27, 2019 10:00 | 14h 15m | 1,799 | 4,114 |
| 8 | January 11, 2019 10:30 | January 11, 2019 17:15 | 6h 45m | 1,404 | 1,476 |
| 9 | July 23, 2019 17:15 | July 24, 2019 08:45 | 15h 30m | 1,113 | 3,188 |
| 10 | August 8, 2019 22:15 | August 9, 2019 00:00 | 1h 45m | 995 | 741 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 39 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Montgomery 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 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2018 | 10.9 hrs | 1.77 | 2.0 hrs | 1.07 |
| Pee Dee Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 34.1 hrs | 5.31 | 3.1 hrs | 2.26 |
| 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 ÷ 5,038 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. Montgomery County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Montgomery 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/montgomery-county