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2021 Lenoir County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Lenoir County, NC went without power for an average of 4.1 hours, a total of 62K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.3 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1524th 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 Lenoir 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 | December 28, 2021 19:45 | December 28, 2021 22:30 | 2h 45m | 3,519 | 2,400 |
| 2 | June 30, 2021 05:45 | June 30, 2021 14:15 | 8h 30m | 2,825 | 4,270 |
| 3 | December 8, 2021 12:30 | December 8, 2021 16:00 | 3h 30m | 2,329 | 5,848 |
| 4 | April 23, 2021 05:45 | April 23, 2021 16:30 | 10h 45m | 2,115 | 7,545 |
| 5 | June 15, 2021 18:30 | June 16, 2021 01:00 | 6h 30m | 1,872 | 6,664 |
| 6 | May 22, 2021 18:15 | May 22, 2021 20:30 | 2h 15m | 1,823 | 1,855 |
| 7 | August 20, 2021 04:45 | August 20, 2021 08:15 | 3h 30m | 1,611 | 5,630 |
| 8 | December 6, 2021 22:45 | December 7, 2021 01:30 | 2h 45m | 1,444 | 2,205 |
| 9 | July 28, 2021 12:45 | July 28, 2021 17:15 | 4h 30m | 1,152 | 2,044 |
| 10 | December 28, 2021 15:15 | December 28, 2021 16:00 | 45m | 977 | 624 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 40 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 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 |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (NC) | 2018 | 51.3 hrs | 2.31 | - | - |
| City of Kinston - (NC) | 2021 | 22 min | 0.29 | 22 min | 0.29 |
| 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 92% of North Carolina's customers in 2021; 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, 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/lenoir-county