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2022 Lenoir County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Lenoir County, NC went without power for an average of 9.1 hours, a total of 138K customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 800th 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 Lenoir 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 12:45 | December 25, 2022 09:45 | 1d 21h | 9,769 | 73K |
| 2 | September 27, 2022 09:30 | September 27, 2022 11:30 | 2h | 2,609 | 3,262 |
| 3 | February 11, 2022 16:15 | February 12, 2022 06:15 | 14h | 2,607 | 18K |
| 4 | October 7, 2022 17:00 | October 7, 2022 20:15 | 3h 15m | 1,607 | 991 |
| 5 | August 12, 2022 11:45 | August 12, 2022 17:15 | 5h 30m | 1,547 | 1,843 |
| 6 | July 3, 2022 16:45 | July 3, 2022 19:00 | 2h 15m | 1,363 | 2,020 |
| 7 | May 15, 2022 14:30 | May 15, 2022 17:30 | 3h | 1,204 | 911 |
| 8 | October 25, 2022 05:15 | October 25, 2022 10:00 | 4h 45m | 1,180 | 2,903 |
| 9 | July 31, 2022 04:15 | July 31, 2022 06:45 | 2h 30m | 1,147 | 2,660 |
| 10 | April 8, 2022 01:30 | April 8, 2022 02:30 | 1h | 938 | 725 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 39 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Lenoir 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 |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (NC) | 2018 | 51.3 hrs | 2.31 | - | - |
| City of Kinston - (NC) | 2022 | 69 min | 0.63 | 69 min | 0.63 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jones-Onslow Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pitt & Greene Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of La Grange - (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 ÷ 15,148 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. Lenoir County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lenoir 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/lenoir-county