County annual report · FIPS 37181
2019 Vance County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Vance County, NC went without power for an average of 74.7 hours, a total of 64K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 37th 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 Vance 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 | August 13, 2019 19:45 | August 14, 2019 10:45 | 15h | 1,807 | 1,496 |
| 2 | November 1, 2019 00:30 | November 1, 2019 13:15 | 12h 45m | 1,789 | 9,591 |
| 3 | June 20, 2019 16:15 | June 22, 2019 02:15 | 1d 10h | 1,658 | 15K |
| 4 | April 15, 2019 05:15 | April 15, 2019 12:30 | 7h 15m | 1,528 | 1,352 |
| 5 | April 19, 2019 15:30 | April 20, 2019 04:30 | 13h | 1,420 | 5,941 |
| 6 | November 13, 2019 08:00 | November 13, 2019 09:15 | 1h 15m | 1,232 | 926 |
| 7 | November 21, 2019 20:30 | November 21, 2019 23:45 | 3h 15m | 1,065 | 281 |
| 8 | March 22, 2019 23:15 | March 23, 2019 01:45 | 2h 30m | 1,012 | 2,085 |
| 9 | June 19, 2019 06:30 | June 19, 2019 18:30 | 12h | 884 | 1,416 |
| 10 | July 22, 2019 22:30 | July 23, 2019 12:45 | 14h 15m | 810 | 1,809 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 44 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Vance 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 |
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2018 | 24.8 hrs | 3.48 | 3.7 hrs | 2.12 |
| Wake Electric Membership Corp | 2018 | 4.7 hrs | 1.98 | 73 min | 1.10 |
| 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 ÷ 863 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. Vance County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Vance 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/vance-county