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2023 Person County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Person County, NC went without power for an average of 9.9 hours, a total of 54K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.6 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 853rd of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Person County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 9, 2023 16:45 | July 10, 2023 13:30 | 20h 45m | 2,862 | 3,334 |
| 2 | September 23, 2023 01:15 | September 24, 2023 02:15 | 1d 1h | 2,745 | 10K |
| 3 | September 10, 2023 16:00 | September 10, 2023 23:00 | 7h | 2,264 | 9,062 |
| 4 | September 11, 2023 14:45 | September 11, 2023 15:15 | 30m | 2,259 | 1,130 |
| 5 | November 2, 2023 16:30 | November 2, 2023 17:15 | 45m | 1,085 | 813 |
| 6 | October 10, 2023 22:45 | October 11, 2023 00:00 | 1h 15m | 863 | 475 |
| 7 | April 7, 2023 20:00 | April 8, 2023 00:00 | 4h | 734 | 1,438 |
| 8 | January 13, 2023 00:45 | January 13, 2023 03:45 | 3h | 693 | 1,285 |
| 9 | May 23, 2023 11:15 | May 23, 2023 13:15 | 2h | 624 | 1,246 |
| 10 | September 8, 2023 21:45 | September 9, 2023 04:45 | 7h | 561 | 2,471 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 45 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Person County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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) | 2023 | 3.7 hrs | 1.47 | 2.4 hrs | 1.22 |
| Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC | 2023 | 5.0 hrs | 1.68 | 3.3 hrs | 1.52 |
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2023 | 4.1 hrs | 2.06 | 4.1 hrs | 2.06 |
| Piedmont Electric Member Corp | 2023 | 3.5 hrs | 1.86 | 2.8 hrs | 1.77 |
| 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 n/a of North Carolina's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/north-carolina/person-county