North Carolina power outages

Live outages across North Carolina from Dominion Energy and Appalachian Power, updated every 10 minutes. 3 counties have customers without power right now.

Right now

Normal: scattered outages

Normal: fewer than 0.1% of customers out. Elevated: 0.1% or more. Major outage: 1% or more.

24customers without power

A customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.

0.02% of 128,712 customersUpdated 2 min ago

We check every utility's outage data every 10 minutes. Each utility updates its own map on its own schedule, usually every 5 to 15 minutes.

Dominion Energy24 / 128,699

Appalachian Power0 / 13

Duke Energy Carolinas, LLCno live feed

This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.

Serves part of the state, per federal utility records

From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.

. Check its own outage map.

Duke Energy Progress - (NC)no live feed

This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.

Serves part of the state, per federal utility records

From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.

. Check its own outage map.

EnergyUnited Elec Member Corpno live feed

This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.

Serves part of the state, per federal utility records

From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.

. Check its own outage map.

Outage map

<0.01%0.01%0.1%1%+ outno live feed

Color shows the share of each county's customers without power right now.

Counties with the most outages

24 counties with live data

County	Out	Customers i A customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.	% out i Customers without power divided by all the customers the utility serves in this area.
Dare County	17	33,933	0.05%
Currituck County	6	21,708	0.03%
Hertford County	1	8,908	0.01%
Alleghany County	0	1	0.00%
Beaufort County	0	42	0.00%
Bertie County	0	3,778	0.00%
Camden County	0	3,221	0.00%
Chowan County	0	1,875	0.00%
Edgecombe County	0	2,442	0.00%
Gates County	0	2,676	0.00%
Granville County	0	109	0.00%
Halifax County	0	15,357	0.00%
Martin County	0	9,695	0.00%
Nash County	0	1,109	0.00%
Northampton County	0	9,761	0.00%

Outage history in North Carolina

2014–2025 record

North Carolina averaged 19.3 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, more than most states.

In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 17. Half were over within 6 hours; the longest lasted 19 hours, starting July 7, 2025.

The largest on record began September 27, 2024, with 1,004,273 customers out at once.

Outages are most common in July.

19.3significant outages a year (2023–2025)

At least 1% of the area's customers, and at least 100, without power at the same time. Outages less than 6 hours apart count as one.

4.5 hourstypical (median) length

Half of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.

18 dayslongest on record (September 2024)

1,004,273most customers out at once

Largest events (start)	Peak out	Lasted i How long this area stayed at or above the significant-outage line, not how long any one home was without power.	Customer-hours i Customers out multiplied by hours out, added up over the event. 1,000 customers out for 3 hours is 3,000 customer-hours.
September 27, 2024	1,004,273	18 days	93,989,143
September 13, 2018	692,333	8.3 days	55,112,105
October 8, 2016	682,376	5.7 days	33,274,112
October 11, 2018	587,824	4.4 days	21,912,100
December 23, 2022	484,464	1.6 days	5,290,020

Recorded outages from EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (CC BY 4.0).

From EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's record of utility outage data every 15 minutes since 2014 (CC BY 4.0). It covered about 9 in 10 U.S. customers.

Counties in North Carolina

Utilities

Dominion Energy
Appalachian Power
Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC no live feed
Duke Energy Progress - (NC) no live feed
EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp no live feed
Brunswick Electric Member Corp no live feed
Union Electric Membership Corp - (NC) no live feed
Jones-Onslow Elec Member Corp no live feed
Fayetteville Public Works Commission no live feed
Blue Ridge Elec Member Corp - (NC) no live feed