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2019 Union County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Union County, NC went without power for an average of 4.4 hours, a total of 287K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 72nd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1224th 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 Union 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 | April 26, 2019 12:45 | April 28, 2019 01:45 | 1d 13h | 6,970 | 57K |
| 2 | March 7, 2019 12:45 | March 7, 2019 18:30 | 5h 45m | 5,426 | 3,554 |
| 3 | March 25, 2019 13:15 | March 25, 2019 16:15 | 3h | 5,300 | 1,331 |
| 4 | March 19, 2019 11:00 | March 19, 2019 19:15 | 8h 15m | 5,299 | 6,649 |
| 5 | April 19, 2019 17:45 | April 21, 2019 19:00 | 2d 1h | 5,202 | 40K |
| 6 | December 15, 2019 18:45 | December 16, 2019 00:00 | 5h 15m | 5,109 | 5,768 |
| 7 | April 2, 2019 13:30 | April 3, 2019 06:30 | 17h | 2,988 | 9,513 |
| 8 | June 22, 2019 20:30 | June 25, 2019 10:30 | 2d 14h | 2,749 | 22K |
| 9 | May 6, 2019 10:30 | May 6, 2019 18:15 | 7h 45m | 2,201 | 1,131 |
| 10 | June 12, 2019 10:45 | June 13, 2019 09:30 | 22h 45m | 1,918 | 3,567 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 85 reached 100+ customers, 23 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 Union 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 |
| Pee Dee Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 34.1 hrs | 5.31 | 3.1 hrs | 2.26 |
| Union Electric Membership Corp - (NC) | 2018 | 4.6 hrs | 1.86 | 63 min | 0.85 |
| City of Monroe - (NC) | 2018 | 87 min | 0.73 | 22 min | 0.54 |
| 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 ÷ 65,408 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. Union County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Union 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/union-county