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2022 Cumberland County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Cumberland County, NC went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 332K customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 79th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1778th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cumberland County, 2022
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 24, 2022 06:30 | December 27, 2022 20:15 | 3d 13h | 17,378 | 73K |
| 2 | January 22, 2022 17:30 | January 23, 2022 20:30 | 1d 3h | 6,203 | 47K |
| 3 | April 26, 2022 17:30 | April 27, 2022 01:15 | 7h 45m | 4,367 | 6,059 |
| 4 | September 30, 2022 04:45 | October 3, 2022 16:15 | 3d 11h | 4,297 | 56K |
| 5 | April 24, 2022 02:15 | April 24, 2022 05:30 | 3h 15m | 3,787 | 12K |
| 6 | December 23, 2022 11:45 | December 24, 2022 05:30 | 17h 45m | 2,983 | 9,978 |
| 7 | July 8, 2022 01:15 | July 9, 2022 04:15 | 1d 3h | 2,566 | 12K |
| 8 | May 24, 2022 22:15 | May 25, 2022 00:45 | 2h 30m | 2,247 | 566 |
| 9 | January 16, 2022 15:30 | January 18, 2022 03:15 | 1d 11h | 1,914 | 9,491 |
| 10 | July 12, 2022 15:45 | July 12, 2022 22:45 | 7h | 1,902 | 4,289 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 83 reached 100+ customers, 23 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 Cumberland County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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) | 2022 | 9.8 hrs | 2.35 | 2.2 hrs | 1.26 |
| Lumbee River Elec Member Corp | 2022 | 7.0 hrs | 2.57 | 1.7 hrs | 1.28 |
| Fayetteville Public Works Commission | 2022 | 65 min | 0.61 | 46 min | 0.55 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| South River Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 93,841 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. Cumberland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cumberland County, NC annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/north-carolina/cumberland-county