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Who serves Lenoir County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Duke Energy Carolinas, NC Electric Cooperatives and Tri-County EMC, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of Kinston and Town of La Grange also serve parts of this county — we don't yet read their own live outage maps. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider. For the parent company's combined picture, see Duke Energy outages across every state it serves.
Outage history — Lenoir County, NC
Last significant outage: Sep 21, 2026 — peaked at 207 customers, restored in ~2.5 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 3 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2.5 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 2, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Lenoir County, NC
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
240 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
1 major event of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
2 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is shorter than the North Carolina norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3 hr.
Largest on record: ~10,490 customers out in October 2016, restored after about 5.1 days. The busiest year on record here was 2021.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Cities we track in Lenoir County
Communities in Lenoir County include Kinston, La Grange, Pink Hill, Deep Run, Graingers and Jackson Heights. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Lenoir County, NC?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Lenoir include Duke Energy Carolinas, Tri-County EMC, City of Kinston and others — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.
