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

Power outage history

Lenoir County North Carolina

9.3hours

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

49th most of 100 in North Carolina 1.4× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Matthew · Oct 9, 2016 69% of customers out · 90% back in 3.3 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 9.3h / yr State average 8.3 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 3.8 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 3hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 5.9days Hurricane Matthew, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 71% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2018 40 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 15,148 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 Lenoir'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

2018 was the worst well-recorded year, at 40 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Lenoir, hours without power per customer

LenoirUS median countyNorth Carolina average
0 10 20 30 40 50 2.7 ’15 40 ’16 2.0 ’17 40 ’18 6.4 ’19 7.0 ’20 4.1 ’21 9.1 ’22 2.5 ’23 2.6 ’24 2.7 ’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
Oct 8, 2016 Hurricane Matthew 10,490 69% 5.9 d 3.3 d 553k
Sep 15, 2018 Hurricane Florence 8,518 56% 4.4 d 20 h 460k
Sep 13, 2018 Hurricane Florence 7,665 51% 25 h 13 h 82k
Sep 5, 2019 Hurricane Dorian 5,992 40% 23 h 9.0 h 66k
Dec 24, 2022 No storm report 9,769 64% 11 h 4.5 h 62k
Aug 4, 2020 Hurricane Isaias 5,556 37% 19 h 9.2 h 56k
Sep 2, 2018 No storm report 3,007 20% 12 h 12 h 23k
Feb 11, 2022 No storm report 2,607 17% 8.8 h 8.8 h 18k
Jul 19, 2015 No storm report 2,156 14% 13 h 12 h 16k
Jun 22, 2020 No storm report 2,676 18% 6.8 h 4.5 h 13k
Feb 16, 2025 Thunderstorms 1,640 11% 14 h 8.2 h 12k
Dec 23, 2022 Windstorm 1,786 12% 13 h 9.5 h 9.8k

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 +10h

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 Lenoir from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Tropical storm 66%
  • No storm on record 29%
  • Thunderstorms 3.6%
  • Windstorm 0.9%
  • Winter storm 0.9%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Lenoir

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
Pitt & Greene Elec Member Corp NC – – – 12.6 116k
Jones-Onslow Elec Member Corp Cooperative 57 53 0.70 13.4 81k
Tri-County Elec Member Corp (NC) Cooperative 89 89 0.65 13.3 23k
Town of La Grange NC – – – – 17k
City of Kinston Municipal 64 64 0.48 13.0 10k

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+

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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 15,148 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 →