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2015 Lee County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Lee County, NC went without power for an average of 5.9 hours, a total of 77K customer-hours (North Carolina average 7.5 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 472nd 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 Lee 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 | October 4, 2015 15:30 | October 5, 2015 00:30 | 9h | 3,729 | 4,748 |
| 2 | November 6, 2015 08:45 | November 6, 2015 17:15 | 8h 30m | 1,969 | 2,477 |
| 3 | November 29, 2015 10:45 | November 29, 2015 13:00 | 2h 15m | 1,962 | 2,059 |
| 4 | September 25, 2015 18:45 | September 25, 2015 22:30 | 3h 45m | 1,957 | 1,125 |
| 5 | January 21, 2015 17:45 | January 21, 2015 18:45 | 1h | 1,951 | 1,463 |
| 6 | April 7, 2015 03:00 | April 7, 2015 11:45 | 8h 45m | 1,947 | 8,361 |
| 7 | February 15, 2015 02:00 | February 15, 2015 22:45 | 20h 45m | 1,600 | 17K |
| 8 | October 14, 2015 17:15 | October 14, 2015 21:00 | 3h 45m | 1,234 | 1,392 |
| 9 | March 31, 2015 18:45 | March 31, 2015 19:00 | 15m | 1,128 | 282 |
| 10 | February 3, 2015 13:00 | February 3, 2015 18:30 | 5h 30m | 1,125 | 1,065 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 61 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Lee 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 |
| Central Electric Membership Corp. - (NC) | 2015 | 3.6 hrs | - | 2.6 hrs | - |
| 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 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 13,067 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. Lee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lee 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/lee-county