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2024 Orange County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Orange County, NC went without power for an average of 31.4 hours, a total of 601K customer-hours (North Carolina average 66.1 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 314th 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 Orange 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 | August 8, 2024 05:15 | August 11, 2024 02:45 | 2d 21h | 11,997 | 156K |
| 2 | July 27, 2024 02:00 | July 27, 2024 10:15 | 8h 15m | 9,693 | 26K |
| 3 | September 22, 2024 02:15 | September 22, 2024 09:15 | 7h | 9,028 | 40K |
| 4 | June 6, 2024 12:30 | June 7, 2024 00:45 | 12h 15m | 7,138 | 7,539 |
| 5 | March 20, 2024 00:00 | March 20, 2024 00:15 | 15m | 6,845 | 1,711 |
| 6 | September 27, 2024 12:30 | September 28, 2024 21:30 | 1d 9h | 5,524 | 31K |
| 7 | January 9, 2024 15:45 | January 11, 2024 06:00 | 1d 14h | 5,154 | 57K |
| 8 | June 7, 2024 01:30 | June 7, 2024 10:15 | 8h 45m | 4,201 | 9,370 |
| 9 | July 1, 2024 08:00 | July 2, 2024 01:30 | 17h 30m | 2,917 | 14K |
| 10 | March 9, 2024 15:30 | March 11, 2024 10:30 | 1d 19h | 2,825 | 4,535 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 113 reached 100+ customers, 44 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 Orange 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 |
| Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC | 2024 | 78.6 hrs | 2.50 | 2.9 hrs | 1.26 |
| Piedmont Electric Member Corp | 2024 | 6.6 hrs | 2.20 | 2.8 hrs | 1.50 |
| 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 ÷ 19,163 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. Orange County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Orange 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/orange-county