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2022 Durham County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Durham County, NC went without power for an average of 248.8 hours, a total of 1.5M customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 9th 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 Durham 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 | September 30, 2022 11:45 | October 4, 2022 06:00 | 3d 18h | 34,256 | 592K |
| 2 | December 23, 2022 12:15 | December 26, 2022 05:45 | 2d 17h | 25,229 | 248K |
| 3 | June 17, 2022 13:15 | June 20, 2022 01:00 | 2d 11h | 20,709 | 137K |
| 4 | July 31, 2022 08:15 | August 1, 2022 09:15 | 1d 1h | 9,779 | 23K |
| 5 | January 3, 2022 03:30 | January 5, 2022 07:15 | 2d 3h | 9,700 | 78K |
| 6 | May 23, 2022 12:15 | May 26, 2022 02:45 | 2d 14h | 7,932 | 56K |
| 7 | June 21, 2022 12:15 | June 22, 2022 11:15 | 23h | 5,419 | 9,478 |
| 8 | August 29, 2022 13:00 | August 30, 2022 02:30 | 13h 30m | 5,408 | 4,604 |
| 9 | May 10, 2022 18:15 | May 10, 2022 23:00 | 4h 45m | 5,405 | 2,671 |
| 10 | July 28, 2022 21:15 | July 29, 2022 08:45 | 11h 30m | 5,104 | 7,460 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 162 reached 100+ customers, 59 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Durham 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 |
| Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC | 2022 | 7.1 hrs | 1.93 | 3.1 hrs | 1.35 |
| Piedmont Electric Member Corp | 2022 | 11.0 hrs | 2.15 | 2.4 hrs | 1.25 |
| Wake Electric Membership Corp | 2022 | 3.8 hrs | 1.93 | 1.5 hrs | 1.23 |
| 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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 6,008 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. Durham County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Durham 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/durham-county