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2020 Lee County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Lee County, NC went without power for an average of 15.8 hours, a total of 206K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 530th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lee County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 13, 2020 09:15 | April 14, 2020 20:45 | 1d 11h | 8,972 | 65K |
| 2 | May 21, 2020 04:00 | May 21, 2020 23:30 | 19h 30m | 2,502 | 4,632 |
| 3 | December 24, 2020 10:45 | December 24, 2020 20:00 | 9h 15m | 2,502 | 9,917 |
| 4 | September 29, 2020 01:15 | September 29, 2020 03:15 | 2h | 2,501 | 1,284 |
| 5 | July 21, 2020 19:15 | July 21, 2020 19:45 | 30m | 2,008 | 511 |
| 6 | April 6, 2020 23:00 | April 7, 2020 01:00 | 2h | 1,979 | 1,485 |
| 7 | November 21, 2020 06:00 | November 21, 2020 13:45 | 7h 45m | 1,926 | 4,108 |
| 8 | February 13, 2020 22:15 | February 13, 2020 23:30 | 1h 15m | 1,751 | 1,314 |
| 9 | November 12, 2020 14:00 | November 12, 2020 20:45 | 6h 45m | 1,500 | 1,678 |
| 10 | February 20, 2020 22:30 | February 21, 2020 20:00 | 21h 30m | 1,456 | 6,017 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 76 reached 100+ customers, 19 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 Lee County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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) | 2020 | 5.2 hrs | 1.81 | 2.3 hrs | 1.37 |
| Central Electric Membership Corp. - (NC) | 2020 | 4.4 hrs | - | 1.8 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 91% of North Carolina's customers in 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/north-carolina/lee-county