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2015 Orange County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Orange County, NC went without power for an average of 19.4 hours, a total of 372K customer-hours (North Carolina average 7.5 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 122nd 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 Orange 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 26, 2015 06:00 | February 27, 2015 23:30 | 1d 17h | 14,879 | 204K |
| 2 | February 14, 2015 23:00 | February 16, 2015 03:00 | 1d 4h | 6,088 | 31K |
| 3 | June 18, 2015 19:15 | June 19, 2015 23:00 | 1d 3h | 4,890 | 28K |
| 4 | January 29, 2015 15:00 | January 29, 2015 20:30 | 5h 30m | 3,407 | 3,416 |
| 5 | August 11, 2015 21:45 | August 12, 2015 05:15 | 7h 30m | 2,851 | 7,513 |
| 6 | July 21, 2015 23:15 | July 22, 2015 10:45 | 11h 30m | 2,418 | 13K |
| 7 | June 27, 2015 03:30 | June 28, 2015 09:00 | 1d 5h | 2,352 | 9,613 |
| 8 | June 9, 2015 19:30 | June 10, 2015 00:45 | 5h 15m | 1,975 | 6,044 |
| 9 | May 29, 2015 18:30 | May 29, 2015 20:15 | 1h 45m | 1,974 | 684 |
| 10 | March 4, 2015 03:00 | March 4, 2015 12:15 | 9h 15m | 1,627 | 1,364 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 72 reached 100+ customers, 18 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Orange 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 |
| Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC | 2015 | 5.3 hrs | 1.29 | 2.6 hrs | 1.02 |
| Piedmont Electric Member Corp | 2015 | 5.2 hrs | 1.81 | 1.7 hrs | 1.13 |
| 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 ÷ 19,163 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. Orange County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Orange 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/orange-county