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2020 Franklin County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Franklin County, NC went without power for an average of 13.1 hours, a total of 356K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 626th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Franklin County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 6, 2020 19:30 | February 9, 2020 03:15 | 2d 7h | 15,099 | 236K |
| 2 | August 4, 2020 04:45 | August 4, 2020 22:30 | 17h 45m | 3,335 | 20K |
| 3 | February 20, 2020 23:45 | February 22, 2020 01:00 | 1d 1h | 2,740 | 21K |
| 4 | October 29, 2020 15:30 | October 31, 2020 01:30 | 1d 10h | 2,473 | 15K |
| 5 | July 23, 2020 17:30 | July 24, 2020 05:00 | 11h 30m | 2,090 | 4,386 |
| 6 | April 30, 2020 11:30 | April 30, 2020 14:30 | 3h | 1,791 | 2,621 |
| 7 | April 8, 2020 22:45 | April 9, 2020 11:15 | 12h 30m | 1,633 | 5,429 |
| 8 | August 12, 2020 03:30 | August 12, 2020 04:00 | 30m | 1,212 | 606 |
| 9 | May 31, 2020 00:00 | May 31, 2020 02:45 | 2h 45m | 1,208 | 923 |
| 10 | July 5, 2020 23:15 | July 6, 2020 00:30 | 1h 15m | 1,048 | 1,048 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 69 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Franklin County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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) | 2020 | 5.2 hrs | 1.81 | 2.3 hrs | 1.37 |
| Wake Electric Membership Corp | 2020 | 2.6 hrs | 1.52 | 64 min | 0.92 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Louisburg - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 91% of North Carolina's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 27,296 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin County, NC annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/north-carolina/franklin-county