Power outages in Tabor City, NC
Live outages for Tabor City and the surrounding area, updated every 10 minutes. Tabor City has 3,886 residents.
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Tabor CityColumbus County
Outage history in Columbus County, which includes Tabor City
2014–2025 recordColumbus County averaged 26.3 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, fewer than most North Carolina counties.
In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 34. Half were over within 60 minutes; the longest lasted 7.5 hours, starting July 11, 2025.
The largest on record began September 14, 2018, with 28,889 customers out at once.
Outages are most common in July.
26.3significant outages a year (2023–2025)
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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.1.5 hourstypical (median) length
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Half of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.10 dayslongest on record (September 2018)
28,889most customers out at once
| 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 | 28,889 | 10 days | 2,185,798 |
| October 8, 2016 | 28,403 | 7.2 days | 1,678,074 |
| September 30, 2022 | 10,697 | 1.6 days | 148,185 |
| April 13, 2020 | 8,768 | 13 hours | 20,301 |
| December 24, 2022 | 8,574 | 10 hours | 53,683 |
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.