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2022 Richmond County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Richmond County, NC went without power for an average of 18.8 hours, a total of 237K customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 354th 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 Richmond 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 | May 23, 2022 23:00 | May 24, 2022 10:15 | 11h 15m | 5,602 | 15K |
| 2 | June 17, 2022 12:45 | June 17, 2022 17:15 | 4h 30m | 4,960 | 4,674 |
| 3 | January 16, 2022 13:15 | January 18, 2022 03:00 | 1d 13h | 3,900 | 50K |
| 4 | September 30, 2022 10:45 | October 2, 2022 22:15 | 2d 11h | 3,463 | 58K |
| 5 | December 23, 2022 06:00 | December 25, 2022 01:00 | 1d 19h | 2,735 | 10K |
| 6 | May 1, 2022 22:30 | May 2, 2022 11:15 | 12h 45m | 2,632 | 7,314 |
| 7 | November 8, 2022 22:15 | November 9, 2022 18:15 | 20h | 2,257 | 21K |
| 8 | September 2, 2022 11:15 | September 2, 2022 17:15 | 6h | 2,044 | 1,050 |
| 9 | January 1, 2022 03:45 | January 1, 2022 06:15 | 2h 30m | 1,991 | 1,672 |
| 10 | June 16, 2022 21:45 | June 17, 2022 08:45 | 11h | 1,896 | 3,931 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 69 reached 100+ customers, 19 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 Richmond 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 |
| Pee Dee Electric Member Corp | 2022 | 11.9 hrs | 3.45 | 2.6 hrs | 1.72 |
| 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 ÷ 12,592 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. Richmond County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richmond 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/richmond-county