When's the Power Back?

When will the power be back in Stanly 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 Stanly County, NC right now.
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Elsewhere in North Carolina: 477 customers reported out — statewide status.
Updated 5:16 AM EDT.
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Who serves Stanly County?

County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Union Power Cooperative ↗, Duke Energy Carolinas and Pee Dee Electric ↗, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of Albemarle also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. 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 — Stanly County, NC
Last significant outage: Sep 18, 2026 — peaked at 206 customers, restored in ~5 hr (heat event).
Across the 9 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 4.2 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 10, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Stanly County, NC
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 389 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025. Typical restoration ran ~2.3 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: ~7,706 customers out in August 2016, restored after about 48 min. 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 Stanly County

Communities in Stanly County include Albemarle, Locust, Norwood, Oakboro, Badin, Stanfield, Red Cross and Misenheimer. 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 Stanly County, NC?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Stanly include Union Power Cooperative, Duke Energy Carolinas, Pee Dee Electric 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.

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