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

Power outage history

Pender County North Carolina

15hours

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

25th most of 100 in North Carolina 2.2× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Florence · Sep 15, 2018 67% of customers out · 90% back in 6.4 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 15h / yr State average 8.3 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 2.3 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 7.7days Hurricane Florence, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 90% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2018 3.3 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 30,714 Estimated from population · 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 Pender'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 3.3 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Pender, hours without power per customer

PenderUS median countyNorth Carolina average
0 10 20 30 40 50 1.4 ’15 16 ’16 2.1 ’17 79 ’18 4.5 ’19 20 ’20 2.4 ’21 3.5 ’22 3.0 ’23 1.9 ’24 2.3 ’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 15, 2018 Hurricane Florence 20,660 67% 7.7 d 6.4 d 2.1M
Aug 3, 2020 Hurricane Isaias 29,214 95% 43 h 32 h 498k
Oct 8, 2016 Hurricane Matthew 14,719 48% 3.2 d 2.1 d 420k
Sep 13, 2018 Hurricane Florence 18,375 60% 20 h 14 h 242k
Sep 5, 2019 Hurricane Dorian 9,316 30% 21 h 3.2 h 80k
Apr 13, 2020 Tornadoes 4,406 14% 12 h 10 h 25k
Mar 12, 2022 Windstorm 6,966 23% 9.5 h 4.2 h 24k
Oct 3, 2017 No storm report 5,997 20% 3.2 h 5.8 h 19k
Oct 11, 2018 Hurricane Michael 2,481 8% 18 h 14 h 18k
Dec 24, 2022 No storm report 17,253 56% 9.2 h 12 min 18k
Aug 10, 2023 Thunderstorms 2,601 8% 14 h 13 h 16k
Feb 7, 2020 No storm report 3,510 11% 8.8 h 48 min 15k

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 +2h 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 Pender from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Tropical storm 88%
  • No storm on record 10%
  • Thunderstorms 0.8%
  • Tornadoes 0.7%
  • Windstorm 0.7%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Pender

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

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 30,714 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 →