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2023 Stokes County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Stokes County, NC went without power for an average of 11.4 hours, a total of 71K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.6 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 754th 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 Stokes 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 | February 17, 2023 19:45 | February 18, 2023 11:15 | 15h 30m | 1,997 | 7,211 |
| 2 | September 21, 2023 17:45 | September 21, 2023 20:30 | 2h 45m | 1,639 | 617 |
| 3 | November 7, 2023 18:00 | November 7, 2023 23:45 | 5h 45m | 1,486 | 1,675 |
| 4 | February 23, 2023 10:30 | February 23, 2023 14:30 | 4h | 1,470 | 3,572 |
| 5 | April 1, 2023 14:15 | April 2, 2023 15:00 | 1d | 1,169 | 5,482 |
| 6 | September 23, 2023 20:30 | September 24, 2023 13:45 | 17h 15m | 1,025 | 2,681 |
| 7 | February 25, 2023 23:45 | February 26, 2023 06:45 | 7h | 871 | 454 |
| 8 | June 24, 2023 22:45 | June 25, 2023 07:00 | 8h 15m | 849 | 635 |
| 9 | August 13, 2023 21:15 | August 13, 2023 23:45 | 2h 30m | 786 | 986 |
| 10 | September 17, 2023 13:15 | September 17, 2023 19:15 | 6h | 769 | 1,095 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 54 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Stokes 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 Carolinas, LLC | 2023 | 5.0 hrs | 1.68 | 3.3 hrs | 1.52 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2023 | 3.7 hrs | 1.64 | 2.2 hrs | 1.37 |
| Surry-Yadkin Elec Member Corp | 2023 | 6.2 hrs | 1.94 | 2.6 hrs | 1.22 |
| 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 ÷ 6,242 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. Stokes County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Stokes 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/stokes-county