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2019 Lenoir County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Lenoir County, NC went without power for an average of 6.4 hours, a total of 98K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 59th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 858th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lenoir County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 5, 2019 21:30 | September 7, 2019 14:15 | 1d 16h | 5,992 | 66K |
| 2 | July 16, 2019 23:00 | July 17, 2019 04:30 | 5h 30m | 3,218 | 5,148 |
| 3 | April 15, 2019 08:00 | April 15, 2019 17:00 | 9h | 1,921 | 6,221 |
| 4 | June 10, 2019 17:00 | June 10, 2019 21:15 | 4h 15m | 1,771 | 1,339 |
| 5 | March 1, 2019 23:30 | March 2, 2019 02:45 | 3h 15m | 1,041 | 1,084 |
| 6 | June 1, 2019 10:00 | June 1, 2019 14:15 | 4h 15m | 923 | 2,860 |
| 7 | August 2, 2019 07:00 | August 2, 2019 09:15 | 2h 15m | 715 | 808 |
| 8 | July 29, 2019 07:15 | July 29, 2019 09:00 | 1h 45m | 625 | 1,091 |
| 9 | January 16, 2019 12:00 | January 16, 2019 14:30 | 2h 30m | 584 | 844 |
| 10 | April 20, 2019 21:45 | April 20, 2019 23:30 | 1h 45m | 557 | 686 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 23 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Lenoir County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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) | 2018 | 43.0 hrs | 2.71 | 2.6 hrs | 1.33 |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (NC) | 2018 | 51.3 hrs | 2.31 | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jones-Onslow Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pitt & Greene Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Kinston - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of La Grange - (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 90% of North Carolina's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 15,148 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. Lenoir County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lenoir County, NC annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/north-carolina/lenoir-county