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2023 Franklin County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Franklin County, NC went without power for an average of 8.2 hours, a total of 223K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.6 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1004th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Franklin County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 8, 2023 00:00 | August 9, 2023 03:00 | 1d 3h | 12,839 | 122K |
| 2 | August 15, 2023 17:45 | August 18, 2023 21:45 | 3d 4h | 3,267 | 12K |
| 3 | March 4, 2023 02:45 | March 4, 2023 11:45 | 9h | 2,897 | 5,428 |
| 4 | August 10, 2023 12:45 | August 10, 2023 21:00 | 8h 15m | 2,701 | 3,427 |
| 5 | April 25, 2023 15:45 | April 25, 2023 19:00 | 3h 15m | 2,018 | 1,459 |
| 6 | April 18, 2023 16:45 | April 18, 2023 17:45 | 1h | 1,509 | 1,190 |
| 7 | April 17, 2023 13:15 | April 17, 2023 15:15 | 2h | 1,495 | 570 |
| 8 | July 14, 2023 07:15 | July 14, 2023 21:15 | 14h | 1,382 | 2,734 |
| 9 | October 15, 2023 13:30 | October 15, 2023 17:15 | 3h 45m | 1,378 | 2,354 |
| 10 | April 8, 2023 21:00 | April 9, 2023 01:15 | 4h 15m | 1,371 | 3,144 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 72 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 Franklin County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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) | 2023 | 3.7 hrs | 1.47 | 2.4 hrs | 1.22 |
| Wake Electric Membership Corp | 2023 | 4.6 hrs | 2.37 | 1.6 hrs | 1.50 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Louisburg - (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 n/a of North Carolina's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 27,296 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin County, NC annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/north-carolina/franklin-county