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2025 Lee County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Lee County, NC went without power for an average of 8.9 hours, a total of 117K customer-hours (North Carolina average 9.8 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 903rd 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 Lee 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 | December 15, 2025 00:15 | December 15, 2025 03:45 | 3h 30m | 1,999 | 2,052 |
| 2 | October 28, 2025 16:30 | October 28, 2025 19:30 | 3h | 1,985 | 1,400 |
| 3 | November 6, 2025 09:45 | November 6, 2025 20:45 | 11h | 1,969 | 6,425 |
| 4 | May 13, 2025 12:45 | May 14, 2025 00:45 | 12h | 1,907 | 4,511 |
| 5 | July 16, 2025 17:00 | July 17, 2025 05:15 | 12h 15m | 1,800 | 3,291 |
| 6 | July 8, 2025 14:15 | July 9, 2025 00:15 | 10h | 1,710 | 4,710 |
| 7 | April 15, 2025 12:30 | April 16, 2025 15:45 | 1d 3h | 1,691 | 2,482 |
| 8 | April 17, 2025 17:45 | April 17, 2025 18:00 | 15m | 1,687 | 422 |
| 9 | January 11, 2025 06:15 | January 11, 2025 19:00 | 12h 45m | 1,683 | 8,390 |
| 10 | May 9, 2025 13:45 | May 9, 2025 20:15 | 6h 30m | 1,655 | 3,463 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 82 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 Lee 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 |
| 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 2025; 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, 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/lee-county