County annual report · FIPS 37183
2015 Wake County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Wake County, NC went without power for an average of 40.8 hours, a total of 1.9M customer-hours (North Carolina average 7.5 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 58th 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 Wake 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 25, 2015 16:30 | February 28, 2015 22:45 | 3d 6h | 92,954 | 1.3M |
| 2 | May 28, 2015 06:30 | May 28, 2015 10:15 | 3h 45m | 19,508 | 36K |
| 3 | February 14, 2015 14:15 | February 17, 2015 06:30 | 2d 16h | 14,152 | 57K |
| 4 | December 8, 2015 15:00 | December 9, 2015 09:45 | 18h 45m | 8,562 | 15K |
| 5 | June 25, 2015 10:45 | June 29, 2015 09:00 | 3d 22h | 8,416 | 20K |
| 6 | October 25, 2015 08:00 | October 26, 2015 05:45 | 21h 45m | 6,471 | 22K |
| 7 | March 1, 2015 06:15 | March 2, 2015 11:45 | 1d 5h | 5,435 | 11K |
| 8 | June 17, 2015 12:00 | June 22, 2015 04:15 | 4d 16h | 4,961 | 46K |
| 9 | March 31, 2015 12:15 | April 1, 2015 04:30 | 16h 15m | 4,525 | 2,138 |
| 10 | July 29, 2015 12:15 | July 30, 2015 08:00 | 19h 45m | 3,938 | 2,904 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 273 reached 100+ customers, 71 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Wake 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 |
| Wake Electric Membership Corp | 2015 | 4.3 hrs | 1.58 | 50 min | 0.94 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| North Carolina Eastern M P A | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Apex- (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Wake Forest - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 46,622 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. Wake County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wake 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/wake-county