When will the power be back in Orange County, NC?
See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · North Carolina
No significant county-wide outage reported in Orange County, NC right now.
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Elsewhere in North Carolina: 867 customers reported out — statewide status.
Updated 3:31 AM EDT.
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Who serves Orange County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Duke Energy Carolinas and Piedmont EMC ↗, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. 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 — Orange County, NC
Last significant outage: Sep 24, 2026 — peaked at 269 customers, restored in ~48 min (no severe weather).
Across the 23 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 5.3 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 8, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Orange County, NC
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
808 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 10 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~29,013 customers out in October 2018, restored after about 3.1 days. The busiest year on record here was 2024.
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 Orange County
Communities in Orange County include Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Hillsborough and Efland. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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