2015 North Carolina Power Outage Report

In 2015, the average North Carolina customer went without power for about 6.5 hours, the 4th worst of 49 states (US average 2.8 hours). Figures from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, including major storm days.

Avg hrs / customer

6.5

vs prior year

no earlier year loaded

Customer-hours out

12.7M

Peak customers out

138,331

across the state at once

EAGLE-I coverage

n/a

of NC customers

Counties reporting

North Carolina year over year

Average hours without power per customer. Line: EAGLE-I coverage, share of customers tracked (right axis).

Month by month, 2015

Customer-hours without power across North Carolina; February was the worst.

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All 99 North Carolina counties, 2015

Ranked by average hours without power per customer. Each county links to its annual report.

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#	County	Hrs / customer	Customer-hours	Customers	Peak out	Events
1	Alamance County	115.9	107K	925	925	809
2	Vance County	80.4	69K	863	863	629
3	Durham County	71.4	429K	6,008	6,008	823
4	Chatham County	71.0	270K	3,797	3,797	686
5	New Hanover County	64.8	165K	2,544	2,544	939
6	Caswell County	50.4	96K	1,905	1,905	384
7	Mecklenburg County	40.5	1.1M	28,172	14,387	420
8	Wake County	34.6	1.6M	46,622	46,622	706
9	Mitchell County	25.8	44K	1,696	1,696	198
10	Granville County	22.2	142K	6,395	4,176	457
11	Rockingham County	20.7	195K	9,416	6,963	693
12	Orange County	19.4	372K	19,163	14,879	936
13	Catawba County	19.4	158K	8,165	8,165	764
14	Moore County	18.4	105K	5,708	5,708	766
15	Person County	16.4	90K	5,498	3,350	496
16	Forsyth County	15.3	427K	27,915	10,764	833
17	Guilford County	14.8	618K	41,756	13,672	724
18	Montgomery County	14.7	74K	5,038	3,661	495
19	Stokes County	13.5	84K	6,242	1,994	484
20	Rowan County	13.3	225K	16,951	7,899	805
21	Johnston County	12.8	176K	13,828	3,175	763
22	Rutherford County	12.1	86K	7,084	7,084	591
23	Wilkes County	11.9	96K	8,042	1,883	594
24	Buncombe County	11.8	383K	32,499	15,809	863
25	Anson County	11.1	70K	6,334	2,832	291
26	Warren County	10.7	41K	3,813	3,813	271
27	Sampson County	10.3	201K	19,420	12,814	668
28	Nash County	9.4	247K	26,243	8,264	522
29	Jones County	8.5	19K	2,265	1,524	129
30	Pamlico County	8.5	15K	1,811	1,404	147
31	Polk County	8.2	43K	5,215	1,359	318
32	Washington County	8.0	32K	4,062	3,912	175
33	Gates County	7.5	41K	5,460	3,787	231
34	Bladen County	7.4	86K	11,706	5,616	343
35	Randolph County	6.7	209K	31,255	8,792	1,007
36	Scotland County	6.3	66K	10,518	2,408	337
37	Robeson County	6.2	377K	60,455	9,108	776
38	Northampton County	6.1	37K	6,048	2,233	324
39	Gaston County	6.0	284K	47,215	4,964	724
40	Davie County	6.0	54K	8,950	2,400	414
41	Lee County	5.9	77K	13,067	3,729	623
42	Harnett County	5.8	129K	22,060	6,682	791
43	Surry County	5.6	61K	10,853	1,479	616
44	Duplin County	5.4	50K	9,258	2,141	407
45	Madison County	5.2	12K	2,231	555	47
46	Yadkin County	4.6	25K	5,364	1,766	342
47	Lincoln County	4.4	113K	25,563	2,650	461
48	Yancey County	4.4	8,908	2,023	617	75
49	Wayne County	4.4	79K	18,042	2,419	784
50	Cabarrus County	4.3	155K	36,290	9,949	801
51	Iredell County	3.9	138K	35,197	4,260	828
52	Bertie County	3.9	40K	10,165	1,490	390
53	McDowell County	3.9	49K	12,442	3,751	447
54	Davidson County	3.9	145K	37,592	3,282	755
55	Franklin County	3.8	105K	27,296	2,806	501
56	Cleveland County	3.7	70K	18,853	4,081	624
57	Alexander County	3.6	25K	6,903	2,923	417
58	Hoke County	3.3	43K	12,912	3,043	389
59	Hertford County	3.3	47K	14,012	1,494	344
60	Richmond County	3.0	38K	12,592	5,226	505
61	Pender County	3.0	44K	14,750	2,668	493
62	Craven County	3.0	104K	35,033	7,186	435
63	Stanly County	2.8	75K	26,968	2,689	575
64	Cumberland County	2.8	259K	93,841	6,986	866
65	Lenoir County	2.7	41K	15,148	2,156	496
66	Union County	2.7	175K	65,408	4,915	1,013
67	Tyrrell County	2.3	4,627	1,979	154	87
68	Cherokee County	2.3	37K	16,160	3,611	239
69	Columbus County	2.2	50K	22,736	3,152	759
70	Camden County	1.9	12K	6,187	2,368	103
71	Burke County	1.7	34K	19,746	2,497	507
72	Caldwell County	1.5	65K	43,296	2,651	597
73	Onslow County	1.4	109K	77,669	10,293	763
74	Halifax County	1.4	40K	28,826	2,675	461
75	Beaufort County	1.4	27K	19,720	1,542	150
76	Currituck County	1.3	23K	17,795	1,742	299
77	Edgecombe County	1.3	25K	19,560	1,326	151
78	Carteret County	1.3	51K	39,432	6,610	525
79	Perquimans County	1.3	10K	7,907	947	56
80	Dare County	1.1	27K	23,623	3,360	387
81	Brunswick County	1.1	90K	82,037	4,603	830
82	Greene County	1.0	5,697	5,487	1,652	104
83	Martin County	0.8	10K	13,275	3,623	212
84	Chowan County	0.7	8,093	12,047	979	48
85	Watauga County	0.6	11K	18,248	1,917	271
86	Wilson County	0.6	20K	35,644	900	70
87	Ashe County	0.5	8,210	17,506	1,702	222
88	Pasquotank County	0.3	11K	34,122	1,949	94
89	Alleghany County	0.2	1,310	7,617	288	102
90	Clay County	0.1	637	9,637	42	11
91	Pitt County	0.0	2,757	80,606	385	98
92	Avery County	0.0	503	18,986	136	11
93	Graham County	-	64K	-	1,875	233
94	Haywood County	-	111K	-	2,782	695
95	Henderson County	-	248K	-	6,473	759
96	Jackson County	-	95K	-	1,659	611
97	Macon County	-	133K	-	16,406	576
98	Swain County	-	89K	-	3,834	423
99	Transylvania County	-	135K	-	4,792	459

Biggest North Carolina outages of 2015

Up to 25 county outage episodes with the most customers out at once.

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#	County	Started (UTC)	Ended (UTC)	Duration	Peak out	Customer-hours
1	Wake County, NC	February 25, 2015 16:30	February 28, 2015 22:45	3d 6h	46,622	974K
2	Wake County, NC	May 28, 2015 06:30	May 28, 2015 10:15	3h 45m	19,508	36K
3	Macon County, NC	July 29, 2015 20:45	July 30, 2015 03:15	6h 30m	16,406	19K
4	Buncombe County, NC	December 24, 2015 01:45	December 25, 2015 02:15	1d	15,809	25K
5	Orange County, NC	February 26, 2015 06:00	February 27, 2015 23:30	1d 17h	14,879	204K
6	Mecklenburg County, NC	June 23, 2015 07:45	June 29, 2015 09:00	6d 1h	14,387	130K
7	Wake County, NC	February 14, 2015 14:15	February 17, 2015 06:30	2d 16h	14,152	57K
8	Guilford County, NC	June 23, 2015 12:30	June 24, 2015 07:15	18h 45m	13,672	13K
9	Sampson County, NC	February 12, 2015 13:30	February 12, 2015 23:00	9h 30m	12,814	16K
10	Guilford County, NC	June 30, 2015 11:30	July 2, 2015 23:15	2d 11h	11,967	61K
11	Forsyth County, NC	February 26, 2015 05:45	February 28, 2015 03:30	1d 21h	10,764	64K
12	Onslow County, NC	August 19, 2015 04:00	August 19, 2015 08:00	4h	10,293	41K
13	Onslow County, NC	August 5, 2015 11:00	August 5, 2015 16:00	5h	10,282	2,622
14	Cabarrus County, NC	July 26, 2015 12:30	July 26, 2015 14:15	1h 45m	9,949	14K
15	Mecklenburg County, NC	August 11, 2015 09:00	August 13, 2015 02:30	1d 17h	9,905	51K
16	Mecklenburg County, NC	October 1, 2015 05:00	October 6, 2015 06:15	5d 1h	9,803	181K
17	Robeson County, NC	February 17, 2015 04:30	February 19, 2015 10:45	2d 6h	9,108	245K
18	Randolph County, NC	January 28, 2015 16:00	January 28, 2015 19:00	3h	8,792	5,360
19	Guilford County, NC	May 25, 2015 11:30	May 25, 2015 16:45	5h 15m	8,585	8,689
20	Wake County, NC	December 8, 2015 15:00	December 9, 2015 09:45	18h 45m	8,562	15K
21	Buncombe County, NC	October 13, 2015 06:15	October 14, 2015 07:45	1d 1h	8,436	10K
22	Wake County, NC	June 25, 2015 10:45	June 29, 2015 09:00	3d 22h	8,416	20K
23	Guilford County, NC	February 26, 2015 06:15	February 28, 2015 03:45	1d 21h	8,359	90K
24	Nash County, NC	February 15, 2015 02:30	February 16, 2015 06:00	1d 3h	8,264	44K
25	Catawba County, NC	November 23, 2015 15:30	November 24, 2015 01:45	10h 15m	8,165	17K

EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of North Carolina's electricity customers in 2015; outages at utilities it does not see are not counted. Hours per customer divide outage customer-minutes by modeled county customers.

North Carolina by year:2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016

Other states in 2015:WV WA MI RI LA OK NJ AR

Part of the 2015 US Power Outage Report.

Data from DOE EAGLE-I, every source we read.