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2022 Orange County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Orange County, NC went without power for an average of 54.9 hours, a total of 1.1M customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 68th 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 Orange 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 15:15 | October 4, 2022 05:45 | 3d 14h | 16,403 | 431K |
| 2 | February 11, 2022 14:15 | February 11, 2022 15:30 | 1h 15m | 10,877 | 5,449 |
| 3 | January 3, 2022 09:45 | January 5, 2022 05:45 | 1d 20h | 10,714 | 152K |
| 4 | December 23, 2022 11:45 | December 25, 2022 03:15 | 1d 15h | 9,880 | 98K |
| 5 | April 29, 2022 04:15 | April 29, 2022 07:00 | 2h 45m | 5,578 | 8,617 |
| 6 | June 17, 2022 19:15 | June 19, 2022 15:30 | 1d 20h | 5,153 | 78K |
| 7 | September 6, 2022 09:45 | September 6, 2022 20:45 | 11h | 4,510 | 12K |
| 8 | November 2, 2022 12:15 | November 2, 2022 22:30 | 10h 15m | 3,038 | 4,601 |
| 9 | May 20, 2022 03:00 | May 21, 2022 01:45 | 22h 45m | 2,984 | 8,226 |
| 10 | June 8, 2022 22:00 | June 9, 2022 02:45 | 4h 45m | 2,771 | 1,838 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 110 reached 100+ customers, 44 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 Orange 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 |
| 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 ÷ 19,163 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. Orange County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Orange 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/orange-county