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2022 Vance County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Vance County, NC went without power for an average of 314.4 hours, a total of 271K customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 8th 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 Vance 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 11, 2022 07:00 | January 11, 2022 20:45 | 13h 45m | 7,596 | 45K |
| 2 | October 18, 2022 07:15 | October 18, 2022 08:45 | 1h 30m | 7,292 | 8,811 |
| 3 | December 23, 2022 10:45 | December 25, 2022 03:30 | 1d 16h | 6,650 | 33K |
| 4 | September 30, 2022 18:15 | October 2, 2022 22:45 | 2d 4h | 6,306 | 104K |
| 5 | December 7, 2022 16:00 | December 7, 2022 18:00 | 2h | 2,244 | 1,046 |
| 6 | November 15, 2022 21:45 | November 16, 2022 01:15 | 3h 30m | 1,914 | 1,915 |
| 7 | June 17, 2022 22:15 | June 19, 2022 17:15 | 1d 19h | 1,582 | 15K |
| 8 | October 17, 2022 23:45 | October 18, 2022 03:15 | 3h 30m | 1,542 | 1,160 |
| 9 | December 7, 2022 22:45 | December 7, 2022 23:30 | 45m | 1,465 | 367 |
| 10 | August 17, 2022 11:45 | August 17, 2022 23:00 | 11h 15m | 1,402 | 1,789 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 51 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Vance 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 |
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2022 | 5.9 hrs | 2.38 | 3.2 hrs | 1.77 |
| Wake Electric Membership Corp | 2022 | 3.8 hrs | 1.93 | 1.5 hrs | 1.23 |
| 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 ÷ 863 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. Vance County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Vance 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/vance-county