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2021 Davidson County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Davidson County, NC went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 142K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.3 hours). That ranks 59th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1595th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Davidson County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 9, 2021 18:45 | November 9, 2021 23:15 | 4h 30m | 2,645 | 4,393 |
| 2 | April 28, 2021 07:45 | April 28, 2021 09:00 | 1h 15m | 1,832 | 2,290 |
| 3 | August 2, 2021 12:45 | August 2, 2021 21:15 | 8h 30m | 1,784 | 4,061 |
| 4 | October 5, 2021 19:15 | October 6, 2021 00:45 | 5h 30m | 1,778 | 2,397 |
| 5 | May 18, 2021 12:45 | May 18, 2021 18:00 | 5h 15m | 1,766 | 3,541 |
| 6 | July 16, 2021 11:45 | July 16, 2021 14:15 | 2h 30m | 1,766 | 1,768 |
| 7 | September 15, 2021 12:00 | September 16, 2021 02:15 | 14h 15m | 1,364 | 14K |
| 8 | December 7, 2021 18:45 | December 8, 2021 03:15 | 8h 30m | 1,361 | 2,762 |
| 9 | May 20, 2021 20:00 | May 20, 2021 20:45 | 45m | 1,188 | 891 |
| 10 | August 25, 2021 12:30 | August 25, 2021 19:30 | 7h | 1,148 | 1,186 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 82 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Davidson County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 3.5 hrs | 1.20 | 2.5 hrs | 1.10 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2021 | 2.1 hrs | 1.04 | 84 min | 0.90 |
| Town of High Point | 2021 | 4.9 hrs | 1.89 | 1.7 hrs | 1.09 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lexington - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 92% of North Carolina's customers in 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 37,592 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. Davidson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Davidson County, NC annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/north-carolina/davidson-county