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2020 Lenoir County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Lenoir County, NC went without power for an average of 7.0 hours, a total of 106K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 75th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1083rd 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 Lenoir 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 | August 4, 2020 03:45 | August 5, 2020 17:30 | 1d 13h | 5,556 | 57K |
| 2 | June 22, 2020 07:30 | June 22, 2020 17:45 | 10h 15m | 2,676 | 13K |
| 3 | August 11, 2020 14:45 | August 11, 2020 19:30 | 4h 45m | 1,831 | 4,000 |
| 4 | June 30, 2020 19:30 | June 30, 2020 19:45 | 15m | 1,203 | 301 |
| 5 | August 28, 2020 21:15 | August 28, 2020 22:15 | 1h | 1,093 | 547 |
| 6 | October 29, 2020 16:30 | October 30, 2020 00:30 | 8h | 993 | 2,610 |
| 7 | February 7, 2020 13:15 | February 8, 2020 13:30 | 1d | 693 | 3,076 |
| 8 | February 21, 2020 03:15 | February 21, 2020 17:45 | 14h 30m | 630 | 3,974 |
| 9 | September 19, 2020 16:15 | September 19, 2020 17:30 | 1h 15m | 618 | 773 |
| 10 | July 6, 2020 05:30 | July 6, 2020 06:00 | 30m | 616 | 308 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 39 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 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 |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (NC) | 2018 | 51.3 hrs | 2.31 | - | - |
| City of Kinston - (NC) | 2020 | 58 min | 0.89 | 58 min | 0.89 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jones-Onslow Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pitt & Greene Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 91% of North Carolina's customers in 2020; 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, 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/lenoir-county