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North Carolina Power Outages

As of October 15, 2026 00:30 UTC, about 27,097 customers are currently without power across 31 counties in North Carolina.

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October 15, 2026 00:30 UTC
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MassOutage, "North Carolina Power Outages", live data as of October 15, 2026 00:30 UTC. https://massoutage.com/north-carolina

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COUNTIES WITH ACTIVE OUTAGES

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MOST OUTAGE-PRONE COUNTIES (2025)

  1. 1Alamance County225.9h/cust
  2. 2Chatham County89.2h/cust
  3. 3Durham County87.9h/cust
  4. 4Vance County78.3h/cust
  5. 5Mitchell County74.2h/cust
  6. 6Mecklenburg County59.7h/cust
  7. 7New Hanover County56.4h/cust
  8. 8Yancey County40.0h/cust
Outage trend · North Carolina
27,097customers out
Data as of Oct 15, 2026 00:30 UTC
North Carolina: customers without power, last 24 hoursPeak 27,097 customers out; latest 27,097 as of Oct 15, 2026 00:30 UTC. Each point is the highest reading in its interval.010k20k30kOct 146 AM12 PM6 PM
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Times in EDT. Shaded stretches had no reading.

Cost of power in North Carolina

▲ 39% since 2010

What North Carolinapays for electricity, from the US EIA, and how fast it’s rising as national demand climbs. See energy & the AI data-center surge.

Residential
15.2¢
per kWh
Commercial
10.7¢
per kWh
Industrial
8.4¢
per kWh
RESIDENTIAL ¢/kWh BY YEAR
North Carolina residential electricity price by year2010–2025: 2010 10.2¢, 2011 10.3¢, 2012 10.9¢, 2013 11.0¢, 2014 11.2¢, 2015 11.3¢, 2016 11.1¢, 2017 11.0¢, 2018 11.1¢, 2019 11.4¢, 2020 11.4¢, 2021 11.4¢, 2022 11.7¢, 2023 13.0¢, 2024 14.3¢, 2025 14.2¢.05101510.2¢201010.3¢10.9¢201211.0¢11.2¢201411.3¢11.1¢201611.0¢11.1¢201811.4¢11.4¢202011.4¢11.7¢202213.0¢14.3¢202414.2¢
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Retail prices from the US EIA (Form 861). Energy & the data-center surge →

Hardest-hit cities statewide

The individual towns and townships with the most customers out right now.

RaleighWAKE COUNTY82CaryWAKE COUNTY82ApexWAKE COUNTY82Wake ForestWAKE COUNTY82Holly SpringsWAKE COUNTY82Fuquay-VarinaWAKE COUNTY82Winston-SalemFORSYTH COUNTY38AshevilleBUNCOMBE COUNTY20

A decade of outages in North Carolina

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Average hours without power per customer each year (EAGLE-I). Worst year in red.

North Carolina outage hours per customer by year2015–2025: 2015 6.5h, 2016 26.5h, 2017 8.1h, 2018 42.5h, 2019 11.4h, 2020 16.4h, 2021 8.9h, 2022 17.0h, 2023 10.8h, 2024 36.3h, 2025 8.5h. Highlighted: 2018 (highest).02040606.5h201526.5h20168.1h201742.5h201811.4h201916.4h20208.9h202117.0h202210.8h202336.3h20248.5h2025
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North Carolina's worst year on record was 2018 (peak 528,045 customers out at once) · decade average 17.5 hrs per customer/yr.

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Official reliability (EIA 2025)

Source: US EIA
3.3 hrs
SAIDI, avg outage/customer/yr
1.4
SAIFI, outages/customer/yr

Major disturbances (DOE)

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  • October 3, 2023 · - Suspicious activity
  • February 26, 2023 · Actual Physical Attack/Vandalism

Electric providers in North Carolina

0% of North Carolina customers are served by utilities with a live county-level feed; 3% have no live feed. Our coverage →

All North Carolina counties

Data from DOE/ORNL ODIN and DOE EAGLE-I, every source we read. Machine-readable data: /api/v1/live/map. Live data as of .