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2020 Montgomery County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Montgomery County, NC went without power for an average of 27.2 hours, a total of 137K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 312th 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 Montgomery 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 7, 2020 10:15 | February 8, 2020 02:45 | 16h 30m | 4,091 | 21K |
| 2 | May 22, 2020 21:30 | May 24, 2020 01:30 | 1d 4h | 3,770 | 50K |
| 3 | July 11, 2020 00:15 | July 11, 2020 12:15 | 12h | 2,511 | 5,468 |
| 4 | October 29, 2020 14:00 | October 30, 2020 23:00 | 1d 9h | 2,217 | 3,404 |
| 5 | April 13, 2020 07:45 | April 14, 2020 19:15 | 1d 11h | 1,502 | 11K |
| 6 | June 27, 2020 00:00 | June 27, 2020 01:00 | 1h | 1,428 | 1,070 |
| 7 | April 20, 2020 15:45 | April 20, 2020 21:00 | 5h 15m | 1,393 | 5,186 |
| 8 | July 26, 2020 05:15 | July 26, 2020 06:45 | 1h 30m | 1,175 | 1,763 |
| 9 | July 29, 2020 03:15 | July 29, 2020 19:15 | 16h | 1,084 | 428 |
| 10 | December 3, 2020 10:45 | December 3, 2020 21:45 | 11h | 936 | 1,778 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 58 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Montgomery 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 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2020 | 10.0 hrs | 1.79 | 2.2 hrs | 1.14 |
| Pee Dee Electric Member Corp | 2020 | 11.4 hrs | 4.54 | 3.6 hrs | 3.02 |
| Randolph Electric Member Corp | 2020 | 3.3 hrs | 2.06 | 1.6 hrs | 1.46 |
| 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 91% of North Carolina's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,038 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. Montgomery County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Montgomery 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/montgomery-county