County annual report · FIPS 37145
2019 Person County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Person County, NC went without power for an average of 21.4 hours, a total of 118K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 199th 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 Person 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 15:30 | June 22, 2019 01:45 | 1d 10h | 6,687 | 51K |
| 2 | June 14, 2019 13:00 | June 14, 2019 14:45 | 1h 45m | 4,306 | 2,219 |
| 3 | January 19, 2019 06:30 | January 19, 2019 09:00 | 2h 30m | 2,830 | 3,538 |
| 4 | July 22, 2019 23:15 | July 23, 2019 09:45 | 10h 30m | 2,308 | 6,989 |
| 5 | October 31, 2019 21:45 | November 1, 2019 17:15 | 19h 30m | 2,182 | 9,260 |
| 6 | August 18, 2019 02:15 | August 18, 2019 04:45 | 2h 30m | 1,887 | 1,592 |
| 7 | January 13, 2019 12:00 | January 13, 2019 20:45 | 8h 45m | 1,801 | 5,131 |
| 8 | April 8, 2019 21:00 | April 9, 2019 10:00 | 13h | 1,226 | 5,944 |
| 9 | January 20, 2019 08:15 | January 20, 2019 12:30 | 4h 15m | 1,196 | 4,182 |
| 10 | February 21, 2019 04:00 | February 21, 2019 16:00 | 12h | 1,021 | 9,027 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 39 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Person 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 |
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2018 | 24.8 hrs | 3.48 | 3.7 hrs | 2.12 |
| Piedmont Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 30.8 hrs | 2.81 | 2.5 hrs | 1.26 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 ÷ 5,498 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. Person County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Person 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/person-county