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2021 Person County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Person County, NC went without power for an average of 103.9 hours, a total of 571K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.3 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 72nd 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 Person 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 | February 13, 2021 07:15 | February 17, 2021 22:30 | 4d 15h | 14,263 | 523K |
| 2 | July 24, 2021 17:15 | July 24, 2021 18:45 | 1h 30m | 1,938 | 1,454 |
| 3 | January 15, 2021 20:30 | January 15, 2021 21:45 | 1h 15m | 1,803 | 1,352 |
| 4 | July 17, 2021 22:15 | July 18, 2021 21:30 | 23h 15m | 1,511 | 5,290 |
| 5 | January 28, 2021 08:30 | January 29, 2021 05:00 | 20h 30m | 1,174 | 7,932 |
| 6 | May 29, 2021 10:45 | May 29, 2021 14:30 | 3h 45m | 1,036 | 3,885 |
| 7 | October 25, 2021 14:30 | October 25, 2021 15:30 | 1h | 1,007 | 755 |
| 8 | November 6, 2021 10:15 | November 6, 2021 18:30 | 8h 15m | 905 | 3,003 |
| 9 | September 10, 2021 15:00 | September 10, 2021 18:45 | 3h 45m | 855 | 2,205 |
| 10 | March 28, 2021 19:30 | March 29, 2021 00:15 | 4h 45m | 820 | 1,235 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 43 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Person 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 Progress - (NC) | 2021 | 3.1 hrs | 1.39 | 2.4 hrs | 1.34 |
| Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC | 2021 | 3.5 hrs | 1.20 | 2.5 hrs | 1.10 |
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2021 | 33.7 hrs | 2.87 | 2.5 hrs | 1.43 |
| Piedmont Electric Member Corp | 2021 | 10.5 hrs | 1.66 | 2.0 hrs | 1.03 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 92% of North Carolina's customers in 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,498 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. Person County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Person 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/person-county