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2023 Lenoir County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Lenoir County, NC went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 39K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.6 hours). That ranks 80th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2096th 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 Lenoir 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 | June 27, 2023 04:30 | June 27, 2023 17:45 | 13h 15m | 3,939 | 2,347 |
| 2 | September 22, 2023 21:45 | September 23, 2023 23:15 | 1d 1h | 2,005 | 11K |
| 3 | February 6, 2023 16:45 | February 6, 2023 21:00 | 4h 15m | 1,642 | 834 |
| 4 | April 9, 2023 05:00 | April 9, 2023 19:45 | 14h 45m | 1,107 | 889 |
| 5 | August 9, 2023 21:30 | August 10, 2023 00:00 | 2h 30m | 879 | 222 |
| 6 | April 30, 2023 17:15 | May 1, 2023 04:00 | 10h 45m | 734 | 2,144 |
| 7 | April 11, 2023 12:45 | April 11, 2023 18:15 | 5h 30m | 623 | 792 |
| 8 | March 17, 2023 14:45 | March 17, 2023 20:00 | 5h 15m | 459 | 805 |
| 9 | August 15, 2023 23:30 | August 16, 2023 04:45 | 5h 15m | 436 | 1,110 |
| 10 | August 13, 2023 09:45 | August 13, 2023 18:15 | 8h 30m | 405 | 1,710 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 30 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 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 |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (NC) | 2023 | 3.2 hrs | 1.54 | 2.2 hrs | 1.22 |
| City of Kinston - (NC) | 2023 | 3.0 hrs | 1.04 | 3.0 hrs | 1.04 |
| 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 n/a of North Carolina's customers in 2023; 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, 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/lenoir-county