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2021 Lee County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Lee County, NC went without power for an average of 25.3 hours, a total of 331K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.3 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 339th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lee County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 10, 2021 11:30 | October 10, 2021 14:30 | 3h | 3,681 | 2,770 |
| 2 | February 1, 2021 13:00 | February 2, 2021 01:00 | 12h | 2,601 | 19K |
| 3 | January 8, 2021 21:00 | January 8, 2021 21:15 | 15m | 2,412 | 603 |
| 4 | February 17, 2021 13:45 | February 18, 2021 01:15 | 11h 30m | 1,737 | 14K |
| 5 | February 9, 2021 13:30 | February 9, 2021 22:00 | 8h 30m | 1,661 | 13K |
| 6 | March 28, 2021 18:15 | March 28, 2021 23:30 | 5h 15m | 1,647 | 2,345 |
| 7 | February 11, 2021 14:00 | February 11, 2021 22:00 | 8h | 1,581 | 12K |
| 8 | February 3, 2021 13:15 | February 3, 2021 22:15 | 9h | 1,554 | 13K |
| 9 | January 28, 2021 15:00 | January 28, 2021 22:45 | 7h 45m | 1,550 | 10K |
| 10 | August 15, 2021 21:30 | August 16, 2021 01:15 | 3h 45m | 1,543 | 1,578 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 86 reached 100+ customers, 29 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 2021, 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) | 2021 | 3.1 hrs | 1.39 | 2.4 hrs | 1.34 |
| Central Electric Membership Corp. - (NC) | 2021 | 2.5 hrs | - | 1.9 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 92% of North Carolina's customers in 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/north-carolina/lee-county