County annual report · FIPS 37179
2022 Union County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Union County, NC went without power for an average of 5.9 hours, a total of 388K customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 67th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1212th 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 Union 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 | January 3, 2022 09:45 | January 5, 2022 04:45 | 1d 19h | 6,012 | 47K |
| 2 | June 16, 2022 21:00 | June 19, 2022 05:00 | 2d 8h | 4,750 | 67K |
| 3 | July 5, 2022 20:45 | July 9, 2022 07:45 | 3d 11h | 4,706 | 22K |
| 4 | July 30, 2022 20:00 | July 30, 2022 23:15 | 3h 15m | 4,469 | 5,150 |
| 5 | January 16, 2022 16:00 | January 18, 2022 01:15 | 1d 9h | 4,297 | 52K |
| 6 | September 5, 2022 08:45 | September 6, 2022 04:15 | 19h 30m | 4,296 | 8,539 |
| 7 | December 23, 2022 09:45 | December 25, 2022 07:45 | 1d 22h | 4,126 | 35K |
| 8 | September 2, 2022 20:45 | September 3, 2022 03:30 | 6h 45m | 3,925 | 19K |
| 9 | May 6, 2022 18:45 | May 7, 2022 21:15 | 1d 2h | 3,696 | 15K |
| 10 | May 1, 2022 18:45 | May 2, 2022 08:15 | 13h 30m | 3,092 | 3,966 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 90 reached 100+ customers, 30 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 Union 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 Carolinas, LLC | 2022 | 7.1 hrs | 1.93 | 3.1 hrs | 1.35 |
| Pee Dee Electric Member Corp | 2022 | 11.9 hrs | 3.45 | 2.6 hrs | 1.72 |
| Union Electric Membership Corp - (NC) | 2022 | 2.8 hrs | 1.39 | 59 min | 0.75 |
| City of Monroe - (NC) | 2022 | 50 min | 0.61 | 20 min | 0.19 |
| 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 ÷ 65,408 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. Union County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Union 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/union-county