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2022 Henderson County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Henderson County, NC went without power for an average of 13559.2 hours, a total of 325K customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1st 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 Henderson 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 23, 2022 08:15 | December 25, 2022 18:00 | 2d 9h | 11,430 | 63K |
| 2 | March 12, 2022 08:45 | March 13, 2022 20:00 | 1d 11h | 8,051 | 38K |
| 3 | January 3, 2022 09:15 | January 5, 2022 05:15 | 1d 20h | 3,645 | 54K |
| 4 | March 23, 2022 17:15 | March 24, 2022 22:45 | 1d 5h | 2,854 | 4,227 |
| 5 | January 9, 2022 21:30 | January 10, 2022 23:15 | 1d 1h | 2,515 | 7,988 |
| 6 | July 9, 2022 11:45 | July 9, 2022 20:45 | 9h | 2,461 | 7,494 |
| 7 | November 22, 2022 14:15 | November 22, 2022 23:15 | 9h | 2,171 | 1,112 |
| 8 | November 20, 2022 10:15 | November 20, 2022 17:15 | 7h | 1,725 | 4,320 |
| 9 | December 28, 2022 13:15 | December 29, 2022 05:00 | 15h 45m | 1,691 | 2,176 |
| 10 | July 5, 2022 09:30 | July 5, 2022 20:45 | 11h 15m | 1,647 | 3,799 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 116 reached 100+ customers, 28 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 Henderson 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 |
| 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 ÷ 24 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. Henderson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Henderson 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/henderson-county