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2023 Lee County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Lee County, NC went without power for an average of 11.6 hours, a total of 152K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.6 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 737th 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 Lee 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 7, 2023 21:45 | August 8, 2023 15:30 | 17h 45m | 8,226 | 36K |
| 2 | March 12, 2023 08:15 | March 12, 2023 11:15 | 3h | 3,830 | 7,659 |
| 3 | July 11, 2023 15:15 | July 11, 2023 16:00 | 45m | 2,404 | 604 |
| 4 | July 29, 2023 08:30 | July 30, 2023 01:15 | 16h 45m | 2,206 | 4,934 |
| 5 | June 27, 2023 01:45 | June 27, 2023 18:45 | 17h | 2,126 | 12K |
| 6 | July 9, 2023 17:30 | July 10, 2023 04:15 | 10h 45m | 1,627 | 3,370 |
| 7 | March 4, 2023 01:45 | March 4, 2023 11:00 | 9h 15m | 1,580 | 5,601 |
| 8 | December 17, 2023 17:30 | December 18, 2023 07:15 | 13h 45m | 1,478 | 6,108 |
| 9 | May 20, 2023 20:15 | May 20, 2023 21:45 | 1h 30m | 1,255 | 1,567 |
| 10 | May 1, 2023 02:00 | May 1, 2023 11:30 | 9h 30m | 1,150 | 2,724 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 95 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 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 |
| Central Electric Membership Corp. - (NC) | 2023 | 5.3 hrs | - | 2.7 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 n/a of North Carolina's customers in 2023; 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, 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/lee-county