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2025 Franklin County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Franklin County, NC went without power for an average of 4.1 hours, a total of 113K customer-hours (North Carolina average 9.8 hours). That ranks 70th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1725th 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 Franklin 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 13, 2025 08:45 | July 13, 2025 23:15 | 14h 30m | 4,562 | 5,840 |
| 2 | January 10, 2025 13:45 | January 10, 2025 21:00 | 7h 15m | 4,142 | 2,218 |
| 3 | April 7, 2025 17:15 | April 8, 2025 00:15 | 7h | 3,511 | 6,268 |
| 4 | June 25, 2025 12:30 | June 27, 2025 05:15 | 1d 16h | 2,232 | 16K |
| 5 | July 19, 2025 19:00 | July 20, 2025 23:15 | 1d 4h | 1,820 | 3,650 |
| 6 | July 1, 2025 12:45 | July 1, 2025 21:45 | 9h | 1,802 | 1,596 |
| 7 | July 12, 2025 23:15 | July 13, 2025 02:15 | 3h | 1,645 | 833 |
| 8 | August 11, 2025 22:00 | August 12, 2025 01:30 | 3h 30m | 1,431 | 1,317 |
| 9 | December 15, 2025 17:45 | December 15, 2025 19:30 | 1h 45m | 1,103 | 1,103 |
| 10 | July 17, 2025 22:45 | July 18, 2025 02:30 | 3h 45m | 1,091 | 1,009 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 60 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Franklin 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 |
| Wake Electric Membership Corp | 2024 | 2.8 hrs | 1.90 | 1.8 hrs | 1.47 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Louisburg - (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 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 27,296 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county