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2025 Montgomery County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Montgomery County, NC went without power for an average of 12.1 hours, a total of 61K customer-hours (North Carolina average 9.8 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 650th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Montgomery County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 13, 2025 09:30 | August 13, 2025 23:45 | 14h 15m | 3,103 | 4,116 |
| 2 | April 7, 2025 15:00 | April 7, 2025 21:45 | 6h 45m | 1,758 | 1,493 |
| 3 | May 12, 2025 14:15 | May 13, 2025 04:00 | 13h 45m | 1,353 | 2,792 |
| 4 | May 3, 2025 00:30 | May 3, 2025 07:15 | 6h 45m | 1,304 | 6,714 |
| 5 | November 15, 2025 20:15 | November 16, 2025 01:45 | 5h 30m | 1,263 | 1,475 |
| 6 | August 25, 2025 12:15 | August 25, 2025 19:45 | 7h 30m | 1,144 | 333 |
| 7 | July 30, 2025 12:45 | July 30, 2025 20:30 | 7h 45m | 890 | 1,534 |
| 8 | January 31, 2025 22:00 | January 31, 2025 22:15 | 15m | 851 | 213 |
| 9 | June 26, 2025 12:30 | June 26, 2025 19:15 | 6h 45m | 849 | 907 |
| 10 | October 12, 2025 12:45 | October 13, 2025 03:15 | 14h 30m | 786 | 770 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 46 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 Montgomery County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2024 | 7.1 hrs | 2.13 | 2.1 hrs | 1.33 |
| Pee Dee Electric Member Corp | 2024 | 8.9 hrs | 3.65 | 3.1 hrs | 2.37 |
| Randolph Electric Member Corp | 2024 | 3.7 hrs | 2.08 | 1.9 hrs | 1.37 |
| 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 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,038 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. Montgomery County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Montgomery County, NC annual power outage report, 2025, 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/2025/north-carolina/montgomery-county