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2023 Vance County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Vance County, NC went without power for an average of 108.2 hours, a total of 93K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.6 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 23rd 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 Vance 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 | March 30, 2023 18:30 | March 30, 2023 23:30 | 5h | 6,491 | 4,187 |
| 2 | May 17, 2023 02:00 | May 17, 2023 09:15 | 7h 15m | 3,148 | 6,703 |
| 3 | July 18, 2023 13:45 | July 18, 2023 16:30 | 2h 45m | 2,559 | 4,477 |
| 4 | June 27, 2023 03:45 | June 27, 2023 09:00 | 5h 15m | 1,968 | 1,029 |
| 5 | July 2, 2023 19:45 | July 3, 2023 12:15 | 16h 30m | 1,953 | 7,969 |
| 6 | June 21, 2023 12:15 | June 22, 2023 01:00 | 12h 45m | 1,764 | 3,640 |
| 7 | August 15, 2023 18:45 | August 16, 2023 17:45 | 23h | 1,687 | 2,124 |
| 8 | December 17, 2023 21:00 | December 18, 2023 01:30 | 4h 30m | 1,652 | 800 |
| 9 | February 9, 2023 16:45 | February 9, 2023 17:30 | 45m | 1,482 | 481 |
| 10 | September 22, 2023 23:15 | September 24, 2023 04:45 | 1d 5h | 1,413 | 16K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 53 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 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 |
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2023 | 4.1 hrs | 2.06 | 4.1 hrs | 2.06 |
| Wake Electric Membership Corp | 2023 | 4.6 hrs | 2.37 | 1.6 hrs | 1.50 |
| 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 ÷ 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, 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/vance-county