County annual report · FIPS 37181
2020 Vance County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Vance County, NC went without power for an average of 130.5 hours, a total of 113K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 42nd 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 Vance 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 12:00 | February 9, 2020 02:00 | 1d 14h | 5,172 | 29K |
| 2 | October 29, 2020 15:30 | October 31, 2020 03:15 | 1d 11h | 3,081 | 33K |
| 3 | February 20, 2020 22:45 | February 21, 2020 20:30 | 21h 45m | 2,560 | 8,189 |
| 4 | June 15, 2020 16:45 | June 16, 2020 00:15 | 7h 30m | 2,206 | 1,201 |
| 5 | July 23, 2020 12:00 | July 23, 2020 21:15 | 9h 15m | 1,987 | 2,012 |
| 6 | January 23, 2020 14:45 | January 23, 2020 17:45 | 3h | 1,816 | 2,391 |
| 7 | April 18, 2020 12:00 | April 18, 2020 14:30 | 2h 30m | 1,227 | 1,144 |
| 8 | April 30, 2020 11:30 | April 30, 2020 18:00 | 6h 30m | 1,226 | 1,237 |
| 9 | June 17, 2020 07:45 | June 17, 2020 22:00 | 14h 15m | 1,196 | 1,693 |
| 10 | September 1, 2020 12:00 | September 1, 2020 12:30 | 30m | 1,186 | 392 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 54 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Vance 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 |
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2020 | 3.8 hrs | 2.10 | 3.8 hrs | 2.10 |
| Wake Electric Membership Corp | 2020 | 2.6 hrs | 1.52 | 64 min | 0.92 |
| 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 ÷ 863 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. Vance County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Vance 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/vance-county