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2022 Lee County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Lee County, NC went without power for an average of 20.5 hours, a total of 268K customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 323rd 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 Lee 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 12:15 | December 25, 2022 04:30 | 16h 15m | 5,756 | 19K |
| 2 | September 30, 2022 16:30 | October 3, 2022 01:45 | 2d 9h | 5,291 | 96K |
| 3 | January 16, 2022 13:30 | January 18, 2022 17:00 | 2d 3h | 5,068 | 28K |
| 4 | December 23, 2022 12:15 | December 24, 2022 09:15 | 21h | 3,873 | 17K |
| 5 | June 17, 2022 22:45 | June 18, 2022 13:00 | 14h 15m | 2,970 | 21K |
| 6 | July 24, 2022 21:15 | July 25, 2022 06:45 | 9h 30m | 2,897 | 5,302 |
| 7 | January 3, 2022 11:00 | January 4, 2022 03:15 | 16h 15m | 2,811 | 9,122 |
| 8 | August 11, 2022 22:45 | August 12, 2022 01:00 | 2h 15m | 2,356 | 5,149 |
| 9 | August 12, 2022 02:00 | August 12, 2022 08:45 | 6h 45m | 1,721 | 4,324 |
| 10 | June 28, 2022 07:00 | June 28, 2022 09:15 | 2h 15m | 1,638 | 2,865 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 65 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 Lee 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 |
| Central Electric Membership Corp. - (NC) | 2022 | 12.0 hrs | - | 2.6 hrs | - |
| 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 ÷ 13,067 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. Lee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lee 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/lee-county