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2019 Orange County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Orange County, NC went without power for an average of 13.0 hours, a total of 248K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 416th 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 Orange 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 | January 19, 2019 05:15 | January 19, 2019 09:30 | 4h 15m | 10,762 | 40K |
| 2 | April 19, 2019 14:30 | April 21, 2019 00:15 | 1d 9h | 4,512 | 23K |
| 3 | June 20, 2019 12:45 | June 22, 2019 07:15 | 1d 18h | 4,214 | 29K |
| 4 | October 29, 2019 02:45 | October 29, 2019 04:15 | 1h 30m | 3,148 | 3,064 |
| 5 | October 29, 2019 13:45 | October 30, 2019 07:45 | 18h | 3,115 | 16K |
| 6 | February 22, 2019 04:00 | February 22, 2019 05:45 | 1h 45m | 2,388 | 2,985 |
| 7 | August 25, 2019 01:00 | August 25, 2019 02:15 | 1h 15m | 2,260 | 2,260 |
| 8 | June 13, 2019 12:30 | June 14, 2019 05:00 | 16h 30m | 2,063 | 11K |
| 9 | October 31, 2019 23:45 | November 2, 2019 07:45 | 1d 8h | 2,021 | 13K |
| 10 | September 16, 2019 17:15 | September 17, 2019 03:30 | 10h 15m | 1,797 | 5,870 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 62 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Orange 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 |
| 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 ÷ 19,163 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. Orange County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Orange 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/orange-county