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2023 Moore County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Moore County, NC went without power for an average of 40.6 hours, a total of 232K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.6 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 149th 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 Moore 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 | July 31, 2023 17:45 | August 1, 2023 06:15 | 12h 30m | 7,542 | 27K |
| 2 | August 7, 2023 19:45 | August 9, 2023 04:00 | 1d 8h | 6,247 | 40K |
| 3 | April 28, 2023 13:15 | April 28, 2023 19:15 | 6h | 3,918 | 1,973 |
| 4 | July 1, 2023 19:45 | July 2, 2023 12:15 | 16h 30m | 2,856 | 32K |
| 5 | June 27, 2023 01:00 | June 28, 2023 03:15 | 1d 2h | 2,626 | 6,728 |
| 6 | June 21, 2023 08:15 | June 21, 2023 16:00 | 7h 45m | 2,278 | 1,931 |
| 7 | May 9, 2023 11:30 | May 9, 2023 21:45 | 10h 15m | 1,901 | 497 |
| 8 | September 24, 2023 18:15 | September 25, 2023 04:45 | 10h 30m | 1,684 | 2,985 |
| 9 | May 12, 2023 11:45 | May 12, 2023 20:00 | 8h 15m | 1,650 | 5,340 |
| 10 | December 10, 2023 16:15 | December 10, 2023 20:30 | 4h 15m | 1,555 | 1,995 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 104 reached 100+ customers, 22 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 Moore 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 |
| Pee Dee Electric Member Corp | 2023 | 3.5 hrs | 2.26 | 2.1 hrs | 1.71 |
| Central Electric Membership Corp. - (NC) | 2023 | 5.3 hrs | - | 2.7 hrs | - |
| Lumbee River Elec Member Corp | 2023 | 2.9 hrs | 1.61 | 2.1 hrs | 1.28 |
| Randolph Electric Member Corp | 2023 | 4.5 hrs | 2.74 | 2.1 hrs | 2.29 |
| 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 ÷ 5,708 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. Moore County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Moore 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/moore-county