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Who serves Richmond County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Duke Energy Carolinas and Pee Dee Electric ↗, 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 — Richmond County, NC
Last significant outage: Sep 18, 2026 — peaked at 1,266 customers, restored in ~42 min (wind/storm).
Across the 9 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2.8 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 6, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Richmond County, NC
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
387 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
3 major events 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: ~18,446 customers out in September 2018, restored after about 4.4 days. The busiest year on record here was 2022.
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.
Communities covered
Communities in Richmond County include Rockingham, Hamlet, Ellerbe, Dobbins Heights, Hoffman, Norman, Cordova and East Rockingham. 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 Richmond County, NC?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Richmond include Duke Energy Carolinas and Pee Dee Electric — 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.
