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2021 Stokes County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Stokes County, NC went without power for an average of 22.9 hours, a total of 143K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.3 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 372nd 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 Stokes 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 08:00 | February 16, 2021 03:45 | 2d 19h | 3,202 | 30K |
| 2 | March 29, 2021 02:15 | March 29, 2021 06:00 | 3h 45m | 3,009 | 4,542 |
| 3 | March 26, 2021 16:15 | March 27, 2021 05:30 | 13h 15m | 2,993 | 6,252 |
| 4 | February 18, 2021 13:45 | February 19, 2021 05:15 | 15h 30m | 2,662 | 17K |
| 5 | July 2, 2021 01:00 | July 2, 2021 21:00 | 20h | 1,981 | 7,017 |
| 6 | September 24, 2021 16:15 | September 24, 2021 23:15 | 7h | 1,834 | 2,365 |
| 7 | January 31, 2021 14:00 | January 31, 2021 18:30 | 4h 30m | 1,349 | 2,028 |
| 8 | May 31, 2021 10:45 | May 31, 2021 15:15 | 4h 30m | 1,345 | 1,366 |
| 9 | September 8, 2021 19:30 | September 9, 2021 00:15 | 4h 45m | 1,342 | 340 |
| 10 | September 2, 2021 15:15 | September 2, 2021 19:30 | 4h 15m | 1,248 | 1,874 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 51 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Stokes 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 |
| Surry-Yadkin Elec Member Corp | 2021 | 4.4 hrs | 1.78 | 2.8 hrs | 0.78 |
| 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 ÷ 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, 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/stokes-county