County annual report · FIPS 37031
2025 Carteret County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Carteret County, NC went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 129K customer-hours (North Carolina average 9.8 hours). That ranks 78th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1972nd of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Carteret County, 2025
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 22, 2025 23:00 | July 23, 2025 01:00 | 2h | 13,310 | 3,375 |
| 2 | December 18, 2025 05:15 | December 18, 2025 08:45 | 3h 30m | 5,406 | 16K |
| 3 | June 7, 2025 10:30 | June 7, 2025 17:45 | 7h 15m | 5,006 | 6,339 |
| 4 | September 19, 2025 12:45 | September 19, 2025 19:00 | 6h 15m | 4,604 | 3,932 |
| 5 | February 27, 2025 15:15 | February 27, 2025 21:15 | 6h | 3,633 | 2,564 |
| 6 | February 16, 2025 06:15 | February 16, 2025 10:45 | 4h 30m | 3,513 | 6,090 |
| 7 | July 21, 2025 12:00 | July 22, 2025 06:30 | 18h 30m | 2,679 | 6,936 |
| 8 | October 11, 2025 19:45 | October 13, 2025 00:45 | 1d 5h | 2,417 | 9,122 |
| 9 | November 3, 2025 14:15 | November 3, 2025 15:45 | 1h 30m | 1,930 | 509 |
| 10 | October 25, 2025 22:00 | October 26, 2025 01:00 | 3h | 1,898 | 613 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 84 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Carteret County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 |
| Carteret-Craven El Member Corp | 2024 | 1.7 hrs | 1.26 | 70 min | 0.81 |
| 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 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 39,432 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. Carteret County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Carteret County, NC annual power outage report, 2025, 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/2025/north-carolina/carteret-county