Power outage history
Duplin County North Carolina
9.0hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
50th most of 100 in North Carolina 1.4× the national median
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 Duplin's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2018 was the worst well-recorded year, at 44 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Duplin, hours without power per customer
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 15, 2018 | Hurricane Florence | 12,989 | 40% | 6.5 d | 20 h | 1.2M |
| Oct 8, 2016 | Hurricane Matthew | 10,146 | 31% | 5.0 d | 4.0 d | 540k |
| Sep 13, 2018 | Hurricane Florence | 12,534 | 39% | 20 h | 13 h | 144k |
| Sep 5, 2019 | Hurricane Dorian | 8,689 | 27% | 26 h | 11 h | 101k |
| Aug 3, 2020 | Hurricane Isaias | 6,113 | 19% | 38 h | 28 h | 94k |
| Feb 19, 2025 | Winter storm | 2,593 | 8% | 23 h | 17 h | 37k |
| Oct 7, 2025 | No storm report | 4,442 | 14% | 11 h | 11 h | 25k |
| Jun 15, 2022 | No storm report | 1,925 | 6% | 10 h | 9.5 h | 19k |
| Dec 24, 2022 | No storm report | 4,525 | 14% | 4.2 h | 2.5 h | 19k |
| Apr 23, 2021 | No storm report | 4,444 | 14% | 7.5 h | 7.2 h | 18k |
| Aug 31, 2025 | No storm report | 1,377 | 4% | 13 h | – | 17k |
| May 30, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 2,956 | 9% | 17 h | 15 h | 17k |
| Sep 22, 2023 | Tropical Storm Ophelia | 2,747 | 9% | 19 h | 18 h | 16k |
| Oct 17, 2019 | No storm report | 1,175 | 4% | 19 h | – | 15k |
| Dec 8, 2021 | No storm report | 5,627 | 17% | 3.0 h | 3.5 h | 15k |
| Jun 2, 2022 | No storm report | 6,716 | 21% | 2.5 h | 1.0 h | 13k |
| Aug 31, 2023 | Hurricane Idalia | 2,527 | 8% | 9.0 h | 3.2 h | 12k |
| Feb 17, 2015 | Ice storm | 1,534 | 5% | 12 h | – | 11k |
| Aug 6, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 1,864 | 6% | 8.0 h | 10 h | 11k |
| Feb 16, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,925 | 6% | 10 h | 5.0 h | 11k |
| Aug 3, 2024 | No storm report | 2,127 | 7% | 5.5 h | 2.2 h | 11k |
| Nov 20, 2023 | No storm report | 2,725 | 8% | 3.5 h | 5.0 h | 9.5k |
| Aug 16, 2018 | No storm report | 1,947 | 6% | 6.5 h | 3.5 h | 9.1k |
| Oct 21, 2018 | No storm report | 903 | 3% | 9.8 h | – | 8.8k |
| Oct 10, 2021 | No storm report | 1,674 | 5% | 5.2 h | 5.2 h | 8.8k |
| Jun 6, 2021 | No storm report | 1,666 | 5% | 5.0 h | 8.2 h | 8.3k |
| Jan 9, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 2,089 | 6% | 12 h | 8.8 h | 8.3k |
| Aug 7, 2024 | Hurricane Debby | 1,515 | 5% | 10 h | – | 8.3k |
| Sep 29, 2021 | No storm report | 4,536 | 14% | 1.8 h | 1.5 h | 7.6k |
| Oct 11, 2018 | Hurricane Michael | 1,422 | 4% | 8.8 h | – | 7.6k |
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.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Duplin from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Tropical storm 76%
- No storm on record 19%
- Thunderstorms 2.9%
- Winter storm 1.9%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Duplin
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Energy Progress | Investor Owned | 183 | 145 | 1.41 | 15.2 | 1.4M |
| Jones-Onslow Elec Member Corp | Cooperative | 57 | 53 | 0.70 | 13.4 | 81k |
| Four County Elec Member Corp | Cooperative | 110 | 82 | 1.84 | 15.1 | 31k |
| Tri-County Elec Member Corp (NC) | Cooperative | 89 | 89 | 0.65 | 13.3 | 23k |
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.
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 32,268 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 →