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2022 Montgomery County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Montgomery County, NC went without power for an average of 50.3 hours, a total of 253K customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 80th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Montgomery County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 16, 2022 21:45 | June 17, 2022 19:00 | 21h 15m | 6,565 | 42K |
| 2 | April 26, 2022 18:15 | April 27, 2022 05:30 | 11h 15m | 4,066 | 9,516 |
| 3 | September 30, 2022 17:00 | October 2, 2022 22:15 | 2d 5h | 3,874 | 78K |
| 4 | June 17, 2022 21:00 | June 18, 2022 08:30 | 11h 30m | 3,841 | 11K |
| 5 | May 6, 2022 20:00 | May 7, 2022 21:00 | 1d 1h | 3,755 | 18K |
| 6 | January 16, 2022 15:30 | January 17, 2022 19:15 | 1d 3h | 2,999 | 14K |
| 7 | December 23, 2022 06:00 | December 24, 2022 23:15 | 1d 17h | 2,765 | 19K |
| 8 | March 12, 2022 11:45 | March 12, 2022 22:15 | 10h 30m | 2,658 | 7,232 |
| 9 | April 29, 2022 12:15 | April 29, 2022 15:30 | 3h 15m | 2,143 | 6,962 |
| 10 | January 3, 2022 09:45 | January 4, 2022 21:45 | 1d 12h | 2,097 | 17K |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 51 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 Montgomery County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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) | 2022 | 9.8 hrs | 2.35 | 2.2 hrs | 1.26 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2022 | 4.9 hrs | 1.87 | 2.2 hrs | 1.37 |
| Pee Dee Electric Member Corp | 2022 | 11.9 hrs | 3.45 | 2.6 hrs | 1.72 |
| Randolph Electric Member Corp | 2022 | 12.2 hrs | 3.76 | 6.7 hrs | 2.16 |
| 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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,038 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. Montgomery County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Montgomery County, NC annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/north-carolina/montgomery-county