County annual report · FIPS 37069
2022 Franklin County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Franklin County, NC went without power for an average of 10.2 hours, a total of 278K customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 714th 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 Franklin 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 | June 17, 2022 22:45 | June 19, 2022 19:30 | 1d 20h | 6,238 | 96K |
| 2 | September 30, 2022 12:30 | October 2, 2022 21:15 | 2d 8h | 3,743 | 38K |
| 3 | July 27, 2022 23:00 | July 28, 2022 08:45 | 9h 45m | 3,617 | 12K |
| 4 | May 23, 2022 12:15 | May 24, 2022 08:00 | 19h 45m | 3,601 | 8,655 |
| 5 | December 9, 2022 18:45 | December 9, 2022 20:15 | 1h 30m | 2,961 | 1,481 |
| 6 | December 23, 2022 11:45 | December 25, 2022 02:15 | 1d 14h | 2,932 | 26K |
| 7 | July 7, 2022 00:45 | July 7, 2022 23:15 | 22h 30m | 2,581 | 5,729 |
| 8 | July 31, 2022 18:15 | August 1, 2022 00:45 | 6h 30m | 2,122 | 2,448 |
| 9 | July 13, 2022 21:30 | July 14, 2022 19:45 | 22h 15m | 2,095 | 12K |
| 10 | March 12, 2022 13:45 | March 12, 2022 19:45 | 6h | 1,922 | 4,062 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 74 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 Franklin 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 |
| Wake Electric Membership Corp | 2022 | 3.8 hrs | 1.93 | 1.5 hrs | 1.23 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Louisburg - (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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 27,296 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county