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2024 Person County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Person County, NC went without power for an average of 9.0 hours, a total of 49K customer-hours (North Carolina average 66.1 hours). That ranks 59th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1018th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Person County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 21, 2024 01:45 | November 21, 2024 19:00 | 17h 15m | 1,858 | 2,613 |
| 2 | August 2, 2024 22:30 | August 3, 2024 02:45 | 4h 15m | 1,784 | 1,412 |
| 3 | August 8, 2024 10:45 | August 9, 2024 20:30 | 1d 9h | 1,228 | 4,251 |
| 4 | January 9, 2024 20:45 | January 11, 2024 04:30 | 1d 7h | 1,131 | 11K |
| 5 | June 30, 2024 22:30 | July 1, 2024 04:15 | 5h 45m | 888 | 1,304 |
| 6 | August 18, 2024 19:15 | August 18, 2024 19:30 | 15m | 809 | 202 |
| 7 | July 27, 2024 17:45 | July 27, 2024 18:45 | 1h | 703 | 702 |
| 8 | August 4, 2024 17:45 | August 5, 2024 00:15 | 6h 30m | 666 | 1,832 |
| 9 | November 22, 2024 12:15 | November 22, 2024 16:30 | 4h 15m | 659 | 1,219 |
| 10 | July 18, 2024 00:15 | July 18, 2024 19:30 | 19h 15m | 657 | 1,947 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 40 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 2024, 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) | 2024 | 17.2 hrs | 1.70 | 2.2 hrs | 1.22 |
| Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC | 2024 | 78.6 hrs | 2.50 | 2.9 hrs | 1.26 |
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2024 | 6.0 hrs | 2.50 | 4.6 hrs | 2.23 |
| Piedmont Electric Member Corp | 2024 | 6.6 hrs | 2.20 | 2.8 hrs | 1.50 |
| 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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/north-carolina/person-county