Power outage history
Hoke County North Carolina
6.2hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
66th most of 100 in North Carolina close to 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 Hoke'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 28 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Hoke, 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 | 10,102 | 40% | 5.4 d | 4.1 d | 620k |
| Oct 8, 2016 | Hurricane Matthew | 5,189 | 20% | 5.8 d | 5.2 d | 292k |
| Jan 22, 2016 | Winter storm | 9,973 | 39% | 31 h | 5.2 h | 77k |
| Jan 16, 2022 | Winter storm | 5,892 | 23% | 33 h | 26 h | 62k |
| Sep 30, 2022 | Hurricane Ian | 2,830 | 11% | 28 h | 25 h | 40k |
| Dec 3, 2022 | No storm report | 471 | 2% | 3.8 d | – | 31k |
| Aug 7, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 6,081 | 24% | 5.8 h | 2.0 h | 22k |
| Jan 8, 2022 | No storm report | 1,732 | 7% | 13 h | 13 h | 22k |
| May 4, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 5,551 | 22% | 7.8 h | 2.2 h | 19k |
| May 22, 2020 | No storm report | 2,794 | 11% | 15 h | 13 h | 15k |
| Oct 8, 2016 | Hurricane Matthew | 5,242 | 21% | 5.5 h | 13 h | 14k |
| Aug 7, 2024 | Hurricane Debby | 1,193 | 5% | 14 h | – | 13k |
| Oct 3, 2018 | No storm report | 7,099 | 28% | 1.8 h | 5.8 h | 12k |
| Apr 13, 2020 | No storm report | 1,724 | 7% | 12 h | 5.0 h | 10k |
| Dec 16, 2018 | No storm report | 1,623 | 6% | 5.0 h | 3.8 h | 7.9k |
| Oct 1, 2015 | No storm report | 3,043 | 12% | 5.2 h | 3.2 h | 7.8k |
| Oct 11, 2018 | Hurricane Michael | 1,564 | 6% | 7.5 h | 6.8 h | 7.6k |
| Sep 29, 2020 | No storm report | 3,769 | 15% | 3.0 h | 1.5 h | 7.0k |
| May 4, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 1,796 | 7% | 4.5 h | 30 min | 7.0k |
| Sep 2, 2016 | Hurricane Hermine | 693 | 3% | 11 h | – | 6.6k |
| Jun 27, 2023 | No storm report | 1,526 | 6% | 8.5 h | 1.8 h | 6.3k |
| Feb 16, 2025 | No storm report | 1,277 | 5% | 6.8 h | 9.0 h | 6.3k |
| May 11, 2024 | No storm report | 887 | 4% | 7.8 h | – | 6.3k |
| Feb 17, 2015 | Winter storm | 1,208 | 5% | 11 h | – | 6.2k |
| May 6, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,284 | 5% | 7.0 h | 5.5 h | 5.9k |
| Sep 14, 2018 | Hurricane Florence | 1,985 | 8% | 13 h | 13 h | 5.7k |
| Nov 17, 2022 | No storm report | 795 | 3% | 9.0 h | – | 5.3k |
| Jul 26, 2015 | No storm report | 719 | 3% | 9.2 h | – | 5.1k |
| Nov 13, 2016 | No storm report | 771 | 3% | 7.5 h | – | 4.6k |
| Aug 18, 2019 | No storm report | 1,176 | 5% | 7.0 h | – | 4.0k |
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 Hoke from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Tropical storm 64%
- No storm on record 25%
- Winter storm 6.0%
- Thunderstorms 5.5%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Hoke
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 |
| Lumbee River Elec Member Corp | Cooperative | 152 | 100 | 1.73 | 14.3 | 65k |
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
- Scotland 16 h
- Richmond 16 h
- Moore 14 h
- Robeson 10 h
- Hoke (this county) 6.2 h
- Cumberland 4.2 h
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 25,348 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 →