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2020 Stokes County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Stokes County, NC went without power for an average of 103.1 hours, a total of 644K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 62nd 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 Stokes 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 13:30 | November 3, 2020 00:30 | 4d 11h | 13,632 | 532K |
| 2 | January 11, 2020 22:45 | January 13, 2020 07:00 | 1d 8h | 2,863 | 33K |
| 3 | February 7, 2020 09:45 | February 10, 2020 12:45 | 3d 3h | 1,740 | 5,883 |
| 4 | August 7, 2020 17:00 | August 7, 2020 19:15 | 2h 15m | 1,551 | 477 |
| 5 | December 29, 2020 06:00 | December 29, 2020 12:15 | 6h 15m | 1,543 | 6,562 |
| 6 | August 11, 2020 13:45 | August 11, 2020 16:00 | 2h 15m | 1,166 | 1,472 |
| 7 | September 17, 2020 19:00 | September 18, 2020 07:15 | 12h 15m | 976 | 677 |
| 8 | November 11, 2020 23:15 | November 13, 2020 00:00 | 1d | 932 | 10K |
| 9 | February 6, 2020 15:45 | February 6, 2020 19:30 | 3h 45m | 768 | 963 |
| 10 | April 29, 2020 19:45 | April 29, 2020 20:00 | 15m | 768 | 192 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 60 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Stokes 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 |
| Surry-Yadkin Elec Member Corp | 2020 | 7.0 hrs | 2.00 | 2.6 hrs | 1.40 |
| 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 ÷ 6,242 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. Stokes County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Stokes 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/stokes-county