County annual report · FIPS 37179
2020 Union County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Union County, NC went without power for an average of 7.0 hours, a total of 461K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 74th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1080th 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 Union 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 | May 22, 2020 12:30 | May 25, 2020 07:15 | 2d 18h | 14,693 | 94K |
| 2 | April 13, 2020 00:00 | April 16, 2020 02:15 | 3d 2h | 11,992 | 126K |
| 3 | October 29, 2020 11:45 | October 31, 2020 18:30 | 2d 6h | 5,834 | 27K |
| 4 | July 17, 2020 21:15 | July 20, 2020 06:45 | 2d 9h | 5,806 | 8,964 |
| 5 | June 2, 2020 13:15 | June 3, 2020 01:30 | 12h 15m | 5,204 | 1,863 |
| 6 | July 29, 2020 12:30 | July 30, 2020 08:30 | 20h | 5,204 | 8,896 |
| 7 | July 13, 2020 23:00 | July 14, 2020 03:45 | 4h 45m | 5,041 | 8,619 |
| 8 | July 16, 2020 20:30 | July 17, 2020 00:45 | 4h 15m | 3,743 | 7,919 |
| 9 | June 4, 2020 17:30 | June 5, 2020 05:30 | 12h | 3,677 | 1,735 |
| 10 | February 6, 2020 10:45 | February 9, 2020 03:15 | 2d 16h | 3,473 | 26K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 98 reached 100+ customers, 33 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Union 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 |
| Pee Dee Electric Member Corp | 2020 | 11.4 hrs | 4.54 | 3.6 hrs | 3.02 |
| Union Electric Membership Corp - (NC) | 2020 | 3.1 hrs | 1.25 | 61 min | 0.67 |
| City of Monroe - (NC) | 2020 | 35 min | 0.63 | 35 min | 0.63 |
| 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 ÷ 65,408 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. Union County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Union 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/union-county