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2025 Wake County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Wake County, NC went without power for an average of 16.5 hours, a total of 771K customer-hours (North Carolina average 9.8 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 446th 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 Wake 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 | June 25, 2025 11:15 | June 27, 2025 11:30 | 2d | 12,876 | 71K |
| 2 | April 26, 2025 21:30 | April 28, 2025 00:00 | 1d 2h | 10,732 | 29K |
| 3 | December 17, 2025 21:15 | December 18, 2025 07:00 | 9h 45m | 9,120 | 3,277 |
| 4 | May 9, 2025 01:00 | May 9, 2025 22:45 | 21h 45m | 6,458 | 17K |
| 5 | January 30, 2025 23:15 | February 1, 2025 13:00 | 1d 13h | 5,643 | 5,093 |
| 6 | February 15, 2025 13:45 | February 17, 2025 10:00 | 1d 20h | 5,476 | 30K |
| 7 | January 30, 2025 13:45 | January 30, 2025 22:30 | 8h 45m | 5,093 | 2,912 |
| 8 | July 2, 2025 11:15 | July 4, 2025 10:15 | 1d 23h | 4,963 | 14K |
| 9 | December 14, 2025 16:30 | December 15, 2025 05:45 | 13h 15m | 4,847 | 9,021 |
| 10 | January 3, 2025 13:30 | January 3, 2025 20:45 | 7h 15m | 4,705 | 2,469 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 233 reached 100+ customers, 80 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Wake 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 |
| Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC | 2024 | 78.6 hrs | 2.50 | 2.9 hrs | 1.26 |
| Wake Electric Membership Corp | 2024 | 2.8 hrs | 1.90 | 1.8 hrs | 1.47 |
| Town of Apex- (NC) | 2024 | 1.9 hrs | 0.74 | 36 min | 0.41 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| North Carolina Eastern M P A | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Wake Forest - (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 ÷ 46,622 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. Wake County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wake 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/wake-county