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2015 Cumberland County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Cumberland County, NC went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 259K customer-hours (North Carolina average 7.5 hours). That ranks 65th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 974th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cumberland County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 17, 2015 06:00 | February 19, 2015 01:45 | 1d 19h | 6,986 | 75K |
| 2 | October 25, 2015 04:15 | October 26, 2015 13:15 | 1d 9h | 6,086 | 21K |
| 3 | August 16, 2015 10:00 | August 16, 2015 11:15 | 1h 15m | 6,029 | 3,015 |
| 4 | August 11, 2015 18:30 | August 11, 2015 20:00 | 1h 30m | 3,643 | 3,643 |
| 5 | June 19, 2015 19:30 | June 22, 2015 20:00 | 3d | 3,378 | 29K |
| 6 | April 9, 2015 09:15 | April 9, 2015 20:15 | 11h | 2,447 | 11K |
| 7 | December 4, 2015 21:30 | December 5, 2015 00:45 | 3h 15m | 2,134 | 722 |
| 8 | July 28, 2015 22:45 | July 29, 2015 01:00 | 2h 15m | 2,124 | 573 |
| 9 | August 19, 2015 22:45 | August 20, 2015 06:15 | 7h 30m | 1,919 | 2,390 |
| 10 | June 25, 2015 14:45 | June 25, 2015 23:30 | 8h 45m | 1,897 | 2,480 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 68 reached 100+ customers, 22 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 Cumberland County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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) | 2015 | 4.8 hrs | 1.90 | 3.0 hrs | 1.65 |
| Lumbee River Elec Member Corp | 2015 | 6.1 hrs | 1.70 | 2.0 hrs | 1.30 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| South River Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Fayetteville Public Works Commission | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 93,841 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. Cumberland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cumberland County, NC annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/north-carolina/cumberland-county