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

Power outage history

Stanly County North Carolina

6.2hours

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

67th most of 100 in North Carolina close to the national median

Worst outage on record Dec 9, 2018 21% of customers out · 90% back in 46 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 6.2h / yr State average 8.3 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 2.6 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 8hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 4.8days Hurricane Florence, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 54% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2018 15 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 26,968 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 Stanly'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 15 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Stanly, hours without power per customer

StanlyUS median countyNorth Carolina average
0 5 10 15 20 2.8 ’15 4.1 ’16 2.7 ’17 15 ’18 1.2 ’19 4.1 ’20 3.0 ’21 9.9 ’22 4.4 ’23 10 ’24 1.9 ’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
Dec 9, 2018 Winter storm 5,547 21% 2.3 d 46 h 126k
Jan 11, 2024 No storm report 7,700 29% 16 h 15 h 73k
Sep 15, 2018 Hurricane Florence 2,190 8% 4.8 d 12 h 68k
Oct 11, 2018 Hurricane Michael 4,337 16% 2.2 d 2.1 d 66k
Sep 30, 2022 Hurricane Ian 3,764 14% 43 h 22 h 62k
Sep 27, 2024 Hurricane Helene 4,097 15% 34 h 18 h 54k
Dec 24, 2022 No storm report 5,579 21% 17 h 11 h 47k
Aug 7, 2023 Thunderstorms 5,208 19% 22 h 20 h 38k
Apr 15, 2018 Thunderstorms 3,002 11% 27 h 26 h 32k
Oct 26, 2018 No storm report 1,715 6% 19 h 1.8 h 29k
Jun 16, 2022 Flooding 7,028 26% 6.5 h 2.2 h 22k
Jun 17, 2022 No storm report 2,834 11% 21 h 18 h 21k

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 +20h

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

  • No storm on record 46%
  • Tropical storm 25%
  • Thunderstorms 13%
  • Winter storm 12%
  • Flooding 2.9%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Stanly

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 Carolinas, LLC Investor Owned 216 172 1.35 13.4 2.0M
Duke Energy Progress Investor Owned 183 145 1.41 15.2 1.4M
Union Electric Membership Corp Cooperative 52 47 0.68 13.9 87k
Pee Dee Electric Member Corp Cooperative 285 171 2.72 15.6 19k
City of Albemarle Municipal 14 7 0.06 11.3 11k

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 26,968 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 →