County annual report · FIPS 37157
2020 Rockingham County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Rockingham County, NC went without power for an average of 59.4 hours, a total of 559K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 133rd 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 Rockingham 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 | October 29, 2020 12:30 | November 3, 2020 01:30 | 4d 13h | 14,551 | 425K |
| 2 | December 5, 2020 07:15 | December 6, 2020 03:45 | 20h 30m | 2,436 | 3,064 |
| 3 | January 12, 2020 02:00 | January 13, 2020 05:45 | 1d 3h | 2,384 | 21K |
| 4 | June 26, 2020 13:30 | June 26, 2020 21:15 | 7h 45m | 1,828 | 5,247 |
| 5 | February 7, 2020 10:30 | February 8, 2020 18:00 | 1d 7h | 1,779 | 8,937 |
| 6 | August 24, 2020 16:30 | August 24, 2020 18:45 | 2h 15m | 1,495 | 750 |
| 7 | July 1, 2020 15:45 | July 1, 2020 21:30 | 5h 45m | 1,454 | 818 |
| 8 | June 17, 2020 06:00 | June 17, 2020 20:15 | 14h 15m | 1,424 | 1,942 |
| 9 | April 13, 2020 09:30 | April 14, 2020 03:30 | 18h | 1,414 | 7,932 |
| 10 | January 13, 2020 21:45 | January 14, 2020 05:45 | 8h | 1,262 | 2,844 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 78 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Rockingham 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 Carolinas, LLC | 2020 | 11.2 hrs | 1.71 | 3.1 hrs | 1.18 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2020 | 10.0 hrs | 1.79 | 2.2 hrs | 1.14 |
| 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 ÷ 9,416 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. Rockingham County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rockingham 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/rockingham-county