Power Out Map
– 0% of Camden out 0 customers out in North Carolina

Power outage history

Camden County North Carolina

5.5hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

75th most of 100 in North Carolina 16% below the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Dorian · Sep 6, 2019 53% of customers out · 90% back in 35 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 5.5h / yr State average 8.3 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 4.9 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 3.0days Hurricane Matthew, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 56% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2019 16 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 6,187 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Camden's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2019 was the worst well-recorded year, at 16 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Camden, hours without power per customer

CamdenUS median countyNorth Carolina average
0 5 10 15 20 1.8 ’15 13 ’16 1.4 ’17 2.4 ’18 16 ’19 9.1 ’20 1.9 ’21 2.6 ’22 3.4 ’23 5.8 ’24 2.8 ’25 NC 8.3 US 6.6

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Sep 6, 2019 Hurricane Dorian 3,282 53% 2.4 d 35 h 73k
Oct 8, 2016 Hurricane Matthew 2,686 43% 3.0 d 40 h 63k
Aug 4, 2020 Hurricane Isaias 2,827 46% 39 h 27 h 26k
Apr 13, 2020 Windstorm 1,648 27% 29 h 18 h 21k
Jan 9, 2024 No storm report 3,432 55% 15 h 10 h 16k
Sep 3, 2016 Hurricane Hermine 1,675 27% 40 h 36 h 13k
Aug 9, 2019 Thunderstorms 1,321 21% 18 h 13 h 9.0k
Jan 21, 2019 No storm report 756 12% 9.5 h 9.5 h 5.4k
Jun 20, 2019 Thunderstorms 638 10% 15 h 19 h 5.2k
Jun 30, 2024 No storm report 934 15% 6.2 h 5.0 h 4.5k
May 27, 2023 No storm report 899 15% 6.8 h 15 h 4.4k
Dec 19, 2021 No storm report 1,570 25% 2.5 h 13 h 3.9k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +6h 90% by +16h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Camden from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 43%
  • Tropical storm 39%
  • Windstorm 8.7%
  • Thunderstorms 6.3%
  • Winter storm 2.5%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Camden

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole North Carolina territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Virginia Electric & Power Co Investor Owned 286 137 1.49 12.7 109k
Albemarle Electric Member Corp Cooperative 184 63 0.81 15.2 13k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across North Carolina

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All North Carolina counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 6,187 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →