Power outages in North Carolina
Live outage status by county · updated ~every 15 minutes
2,890
customers reported out statewide · 26 counties reporting · 6 with 50+ customers out
Updated 11:43 PM EDT.
Includes 35 that a utility reports without saying which county — search your address for your exact status.
Significant outages (50+ customers, largest first)
Wilson — 1,164 reported out · no reliable recovery trend yet
Henderson — 476 reported out · grew sharply just now — past outages here of under 500 customers in the same kind of weather ran ~6 hr start to finish (7 on record)
Guilford — 465 reported out · grew sharply just now — past outages here of under 500 customers in the same kind of weather ran ~3 hr start to finish (12 on record)
Currituck — 240 reported out · no reliable recovery trend yet
Wayne — 228 reported out · still growing — roughly 89 more customers out each hour over recent readings
Iredell — 153 reported out · no reliable recovery trend yet
“Reporting” means at least one customer reported out in county-level data (the federal nationwide tally combined with utilities' own live data where we track them); “significant” means 50+ customers out — the floor for the active list above.
All North Carolina counties (100)
- Alamance
- Alexander
- Alleghany
- Anson
- Ashe
- Avery
- Beaufort
- Bertie
- Bladen
- Brunswick
- Buncombe
- Burke
- Cabarrus
- Caldwell
- Camden
- Carteret
- Caswell
- Catawba
- Chatham
- Cherokee
- Chowan
- Clay
- Cleveland
- Columbus
- Craven
- Cumberland
- Currituck
- Dare
- Davidson
- Davie
- Duplin
- Durham
- Edgecombe
- Forsyth
- Franklin
- Gaston
- Gates
- Graham
- Granville
- Greene
- Guilford
- Halifax
- Harnett
- Haywood
- Henderson
- Hertford
- Hoke
- Hyde
- Iredell
- Jackson
- Johnston
- Jones
- Lee
- Lenoir
- Lincoln
- Macon
- Madison
- Martin
- McDowell
- Mecklenburg
- Mitchell
- Montgomery
- Moore
- Nash
- New Hanover
- Northampton
- Onslow
- Orange
- Pamlico
- Pasquotank
- Pender
- Perquimans
- Person
- Pitt
- Polk
- Randolph
- Richmond
- Robeson
- Rockingham
- Rowan
- Rutherford
- Sampson
- Scotland
- Stanly
- Stokes
- Surry
- Swain
- Transylvania
- Tyrrell
- Union
- Vance
- Wake
- Warren
- Washington
- Watauga
- Wayne
- Wilkes
- Wilson
- Yadkin
- Yancey
Utility coverage in North Carolina
Tracked utilities with dedicated pages
Duke Energy Carolinas (NC/SC) · Dominion Energy (VA/NC) · Appalachian Power (AEP) · AEP (all states) · Dominion Energy (all states) · Duke Energy (all states)
Also tracked live — opens in the app
NC Electric Cooperatives (statewide map) · EnergyUnited EMC (NC) · Fayetteville PWC (NC) · Union Power Cooperative (NC) · Rutherford EMC (NC) · Greenville Utilities Commission (NC) · Wake Electric Membership Corp (NC) · Tennessee Electric Cooperatives (TECA statewide map) · Wilson Energy (NC) · Piedmont EMC (NC) · Town of Apex Electric Utilities (NC) · Surry-Yadkin EMC (NC) · +7 more — search any utility name on the live map
This is our tracking coverage, not a complete registry of every utility serving North Carolina.
Historical outage patterns in North Carolina
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy)
contain 49,412 county-level outage records (200+ customers at peak) in North Carolina between 2014 and 2025 across all 100 counties — 507 of them major events of 10,000+ customers.
Half were restored within about 3 hr, and county-level outages here have been most common in summer (33% of all records). The busiest year on record was 2023.
Largest single-county outage on record: ~119,303 customers out in Wake County in October 2016, restored after about 3.7 days.
Months that hit the widest area at once — these rank among the three largest outages ever recorded in the most counties: September 2024 (28 counties), October 2016 (26 counties) and September 2018 (25 counties).
Where restoration has historically taken longest: Mecklenburg County (~8.5 hr typical), Wake County (~5.8 hr typical) and Guilford County (~5 hr typical) — against ~3 hr statewide.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), 2014–2025. These are federal
historical records, not outages tracked live by this site. Statewide figures aggregate the same per-county records shown on each county page below;
the statewide restoration figure is the typical (middle) value across the per-county typical times, weighted by how many records each county has. A county appears in a “widest area” month when that month
produced one of its three largest recorded outages.
Common questions
Which utilities serve North Carolina?
Electric utilities we track in North Carolina include Duke Energy Carolinas, NC Electric Cooperatives, Dominion Energy, EnergyUnited EMC and others. Each restores its own service area — report an outage to your serving utility so crews can be dispatched.