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2024 Lee County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Lee County, NC went without power for an average of 21.8 hours, a total of 285K customer-hours (North Carolina average 66.1 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 467th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lee County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 11, 2024 13:00 | April 12, 2024 08:30 | 19h 30m | 11,501 | 59K |
| 2 | January 9, 2024 15:15 | January 10, 2024 21:45 | 1d 6h | 8,510 | 32K |
| 3 | August 8, 2024 04:30 | August 9, 2024 21:45 | 1d 17h | 5,541 | 56K |
| 4 | November 20, 2024 17:15 | November 21, 2024 17:15 | 1d | 3,179 | 14K |
| 5 | March 10, 2024 20:15 | March 11, 2024 09:00 | 12h 45m | 2,989 | 26K |
| 6 | March 6, 2024 09:45 | March 6, 2024 11:45 | 2h | 2,720 | 5,440 |
| 7 | April 12, 2024 11:30 | April 12, 2024 17:00 | 5h 30m | 2,259 | 571 |
| 8 | November 27, 2024 11:15 | November 27, 2024 12:45 | 1h 30m | 2,165 | 3,137 |
| 9 | September 27, 2024 10:45 | September 27, 2024 21:30 | 10h 45m | 2,145 | 5,705 |
| 10 | July 18, 2024 21:45 | July 19, 2024 11:30 | 13h 45m | 1,861 | 4,053 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 73 reached 100+ customers, 19 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 Lee County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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) | 2024 | 17.2 hrs | 1.70 | 2.2 hrs | 1.22 |
| Central Electric Membership Corp. - (NC) | 2024 | 7.4 hrs | - | 2.5 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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/north-carolina/lee-county