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2022 Person County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Person County, NC went without power for an average of 33.6 hours, a total of 185K customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 141st 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 Person 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 | December 11, 2022 23:30 | December 12, 2022 12:45 | 13h 15m | 15,873 | 7,950 |
| 2 | September 30, 2022 19:15 | October 2, 2022 19:45 | 2d | 5,220 | 72K |
| 3 | August 16, 2022 10:15 | August 16, 2022 11:00 | 45m | 5,153 | 2,981 |
| 4 | September 20, 2022 13:15 | September 20, 2022 17:30 | 4h 15m | 3,439 | 2,717 |
| 5 | May 21, 2022 21:15 | May 22, 2022 07:15 | 10h | 2,614 | 5,491 |
| 6 | December 23, 2022 11:45 | December 25, 2022 05:45 | 1d 18h | 2,608 | 38K |
| 7 | July 5, 2022 20:30 | July 6, 2022 04:30 | 8h | 2,234 | 2,194 |
| 8 | July 6, 2022 23:30 | July 7, 2022 06:45 | 7h 15m | 2,135 | 6,487 |
| 9 | January 17, 2022 09:45 | January 17, 2022 12:15 | 2h 30m | 2,044 | 2,992 |
| 10 | May 19, 2022 18:00 | May 19, 2022 20:15 | 2h 15m | 1,815 | 1,362 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 58 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 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 |
| Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC | 2022 | 7.1 hrs | 1.93 | 3.1 hrs | 1.35 |
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2022 | 5.9 hrs | 2.38 | 3.2 hrs | 1.77 |
| Piedmont Electric Member Corp | 2022 | 11.0 hrs | 2.15 | 2.4 hrs | 1.25 |
| 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 2022; 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, 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/person-county