County annual report · FIPS 37125
2020 Moore County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Moore County, NC went without power for an average of 53.7 hours, a total of 307K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 149th 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 Moore 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 03:30 | April 15, 2020 05:00 | 2d 1h | 13,875 | 159K |
| 2 | June 27, 2020 00:00 | June 27, 2020 05:45 | 5h 45m | 4,735 | 1,956 |
| 3 | July 27, 2020 12:30 | July 27, 2020 18:00 | 5h 30m | 4,582 | 1,201 |
| 4 | August 26, 2020 13:00 | August 26, 2020 22:45 | 9h 45m | 2,860 | 6,514 |
| 5 | October 29, 2020 13:15 | October 30, 2020 22:45 | 1d 9h | 2,803 | 8,950 |
| 6 | February 7, 2020 10:15 | February 8, 2020 22:00 | 1d 11h | 2,639 | 16K |
| 7 | November 30, 2020 00:30 | November 30, 2020 06:15 | 5h 45m | 2,465 | 2,871 |
| 8 | May 20, 2020 07:15 | May 20, 2020 11:00 | 3h 45m | 2,414 | 1,840 |
| 9 | May 29, 2020 12:15 | May 30, 2020 02:15 | 14h | 2,371 | 7,311 |
| 10 | December 6, 2020 04:45 | December 6, 2020 06:15 | 1h 30m | 2,237 | 2,797 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 94 reached 100+ customers, 19 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 Moore 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 |
| Pee Dee Electric Member Corp | 2020 | 11.4 hrs | 4.54 | 3.6 hrs | 3.02 |
| Central Electric Membership Corp. - (NC) | 2020 | 4.4 hrs | - | 1.8 hrs | - |
| Lumbee River Elec Member Corp | 2020 | 2.6 hrs | 1.64 | 1.7 hrs | 1.35 |
| Randolph Electric Member Corp | 2020 | 3.3 hrs | 2.06 | 1.6 hrs | 1.46 |
| 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 ÷ 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, 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/moore-county