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2025 Person County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Person County, NC went without power for an average of 12.9 hours, a total of 71K customer-hours (North Carolina average 9.8 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 603rd 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 Person 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 | January 6, 2025 14:30 | January 6, 2025 19:00 | 4h 30m | 2,291 | 8,499 |
| 2 | February 16, 2025 14:00 | February 17, 2025 05:45 | 15h 45m | 2,113 | 4,374 |
| 3 | May 22, 2025 20:15 | May 22, 2025 23:45 | 3h 30m | 2,003 | 1,679 |
| 4 | May 13, 2025 12:15 | May 13, 2025 20:45 | 8h 30m | 1,489 | 2,039 |
| 5 | April 15, 2025 19:30 | April 16, 2025 04:00 | 8h 30m | 978 | 3,176 |
| 6 | June 19, 2025 23:00 | June 20, 2025 14:30 | 15h 30m | 969 | 4,230 |
| 7 | December 9, 2025 01:45 | December 9, 2025 02:30 | 45m | 954 | 239 |
| 8 | October 24, 2025 08:00 | October 24, 2025 12:00 | 4h | 871 | 2,157 |
| 9 | November 11, 2025 16:45 | November 11, 2025 20:30 | 3h 45m | 784 | 790 |
| 10 | December 29, 2025 20:30 | December 29, 2025 22:30 | 2h | 781 | 1,367 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 57 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 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 |
| 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 2025; 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, 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/person-county