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2021 Moore County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Moore County, NC went without power for an average of 38.9 hours, a total of 222K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.3 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 224th 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 Moore 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 | March 8, 2021 19:15 | March 8, 2021 22:45 | 3h 30m | 4,759 | 4,045 |
| 2 | May 16, 2021 11:00 | May 16, 2021 15:45 | 4h 45m | 3,092 | 1,896 |
| 3 | May 8, 2021 19:15 | May 8, 2021 21:00 | 1h 45m | 1,757 | 1,759 |
| 4 | April 30, 2021 00:45 | April 30, 2021 05:30 | 4h 45m | 1,646 | 2,375 |
| 5 | October 16, 2021 17:15 | October 16, 2021 23:15 | 6h | 1,448 | 1,142 |
| 6 | January 26, 2021 10:00 | January 27, 2021 00:15 | 14h 15m | 1,429 | 12K |
| 7 | January 20, 2021 13:15 | January 20, 2021 22:00 | 8h 45m | 1,416 | 12K |
| 8 | January 19, 2021 13:15 | January 19, 2021 22:45 | 9h 30m | 1,414 | 13K |
| 9 | January 27, 2021 13:45 | January 28, 2021 00:30 | 10h 45m | 1,411 | 12K |
| 10 | January 28, 2021 13:45 | January 28, 2021 23:30 | 9h 45m | 1,411 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 82 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 Moore 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 |
| Pee Dee Electric Member Corp | 2021 | 2.3 hrs | 1.87 | 2.3 hrs | 1.87 |
| Central Electric Membership Corp. - (NC) | 2021 | 2.5 hrs | - | 1.9 hrs | - |
| Lumbee River Elec Member Corp | 2021 | 2.4 hrs | 1.41 | 81 min | 1.07 |
| Randolph Electric Member Corp | 2021 | 1.6 hrs | 1.49 | 83 min | 1.40 |
| 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 ÷ 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, 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/moore-county