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2017 Lee County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Lee County, NC went without power for an average of 13.7 hours, a total of 179K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.0 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 403rd of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lee County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 26, 2017 13:45 | January 27, 2017 04:15 | 14h 30m | 19,796 | 47K |
| 2 | September 1, 2017 20:00 | September 3, 2017 05:45 | 1d 9h | 8,948 | 64K |
| 3 | December 29, 2017 13:15 | December 29, 2017 17:45 | 4h 30m | 8,369 | 8,487 |
| 4 | May 10, 2017 04:15 | May 10, 2017 17:15 | 13h | 5,628 | 7,943 |
| 5 | September 6, 2017 19:15 | September 6, 2017 20:45 | 1h 30m | 2,099 | 1,178 |
| 6 | June 15, 2017 14:15 | June 15, 2017 16:30 | 2h 15m | 2,093 | 543 |
| 7 | June 10, 2017 06:45 | June 10, 2017 07:30 | 45m | 2,092 | 1,557 |
| 8 | December 6, 2017 12:45 | December 6, 2017 21:00 | 8h 15m | 1,977 | 1,014 |
| 9 | October 16, 2017 11:45 | October 16, 2017 16:45 | 5h | 1,972 | 2,486 |
| 10 | October 13, 2017 18:15 | October 13, 2017 19:00 | 45m | 1,522 | 762 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 57 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Lee County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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) | 2017 | 3.2 hrs | 1.52 | 2.7 hrs | 1.47 |
| Central Electric Membership Corp. - (NC) | 2017 | 3.1 hrs | - | 3.0 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/north-carolina/lee-county