When will the power be back in Burlington, NC?

Burlington is a city of about 61,365 residents in Alamance County.

Duke Energy Carolinas has reported outages for Burlington by name on its own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-08-17) — so when Burlington is affected, this page can show the city's own customers-out count and restoration time rather than only the county-wide total.

ZIP codes in Burlington:

• 27215
• 27216
• 27217

Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.

Around Burlington: the closest other places we track are Elon, about 3 miles to the northwest; Graham, about 5 miles to the east; Mebane, about 11 miles to the east; and Greensboro, about 20 miles to the west. Also nearby: Reidsville (21 mi NW), Carrboro (24 mi SE), Summerfield (25 mi W), Chapel Hill (26 mi SE), Archdale (30 mi SW), High Point (30 mi W), Asheboro (32 mi SW) and Durham (33 mi E).

Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Danville, VA (35 mi); east toward Raleigh (49 mi); southeast toward Morrisville (39 mi); south toward Sanford (44 mi); southwest toward Lexington (49 mi); west toward Kernersville (34 mi); and northwest toward Eden (33 mi).

Burlington's last tracked outage began Sep 29, peaked at 30 customers out, and was restored in 35 minutes. Across the 5 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 2 hours.

• Sep 29 — 30 customers out, restored in 35 minutes
• Sep 26 — 65 customers out, restored in 11 hours
• Sep 13 — 139 customers out, restored in 3 hours
• Sep 11 — 91 customers out, restored in 2 hours