Power outages in Richmond County, NC
We don't have a live outage feed for the utilities serving Richmond County yet. Duke Energy Progress - (NC) and Pee Dee Electric Member Corp serve this county.
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No live outage data for Richmond County yet.
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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.i
From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.i
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.i
From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.Outage map
Outage history in Richmond County
2014–2025 recordRichmond County averaged 41 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, about typical for North Carolina counties.
In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 46. Half were over within 1.5 hours; the longest lasted 6 hours, starting July 22, 2025.
The largest on record began September 14, 2018, with 18,446 customers out at once.
Outages are most common in July.
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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.i
Half of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.| Largest events (start) | Peak out | LastediHow long this area stayed at or above the significant-outage line, not how long any one home was without power. | Customer-hoursiCustomers out multiplied by hours out, added up over the event. 1,000 customers out for 3 hours is 3,000 customer-hours. |
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| September 14, 2018 | 18,446 | 7.9 days | 687,763 |
| April 13, 2020 | 12,499 | 2.8 days | 223,629 |
| October 8, 2016 | 7,444 | 4.5 days | 338,848 |
| May 24, 2022 | 5,602 | 4.5 hours | 15,177 |
| July 14, 2016 | 5,251 | 2 hours | 9,189 |
Recorded outages from EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (CC BY 4.0).i
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.
Cities in Richmond County
Utilities
- Duke Energy Progress - (NC) no live feed
- Pee Dee Electric Member Corp no live feed
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