County annual report · FIPS 37125
2017 Moore County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Moore County, NC went without power for an average of 28.2 hours, a total of 161K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.0 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 189th 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 Moore 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 | July 23, 2017 20:15 | July 24, 2017 05:30 | 9h 15m | 6,850 | 21K |
| 2 | September 1, 2017 18:00 | September 2, 2017 07:45 | 13h 45m | 5,296 | 6,480 |
| 3 | March 2, 2017 02:15 | March 2, 2017 16:30 | 14h 15m | 4,048 | 9,645 |
| 4 | May 30, 2017 01:00 | May 30, 2017 18:15 | 17h 15m | 3,128 | 6,421 |
| 5 | April 18, 2017 13:45 | April 18, 2017 19:15 | 5h 30m | 2,981 | 1,375 |
| 6 | July 26, 2017 18:15 | July 26, 2017 23:45 | 5h 30m | 2,475 | 702 |
| 7 | April 23, 2017 03:30 | April 23, 2017 07:00 | 3h 30m | 2,459 | 6,169 |
| 8 | September 11, 2017 12:15 | September 11, 2017 19:45 | 7h 30m | 2,320 | 1,533 |
| 9 | April 6, 2017 13:30 | April 6, 2017 22:15 | 8h 45m | 2,287 | 2,661 |
| 10 | December 10, 2017 10:00 | December 10, 2017 14:15 | 4h 15m | 2,248 | 6,796 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 76 reached 100+ customers, 24 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 Moore 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 |
| Pee Dee Electric Member Corp | 2017 | 4.5 hrs | 2.56 | 2.6 hrs | 2.00 |
| Central Electric Membership Corp. - (NC) | 2017 | 3.1 hrs | - | 3.0 hrs | - |
| Lumbee River Elec Member Corp | 2017 | 1.8 hrs | 1.17 | 90 min | 1.13 |
| Randolph Electric Member Corp | 2017 | 2.6 hrs | 1.77 | 1.9 hrs | 1.57 |
| 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 ÷ 5,708 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. Moore County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Moore 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/moore-county