See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · North Carolina
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customers reported out in Union County, NC
Reported by the utility's own live outage data — this county isn't included in the slower nationwide county tally.
Official restoration time (Union Power Cooperative): Oct 4, 12:45 AM EDT
Official restoration time (Duke Energy Carolinas): Oct 4, 3:15 AM EDT
County-wide restoration outlook: grew sharply just now — past outages here of any size in the same kind of weather ran ~2.5 hr start to finish (9 on record)
County-wide data — your specific neighborhood or circuit may be restored earlier or later.
🔔 Check back after the next update, or keep me updated — we'll alert you when a dependable restoration estimate is ready.
Updated 11:31 PM EDT.
119county-wide trend of customers without power · last 5 hr · tap or hover a point to see its number
Communities with reported outages — from the utilities that publish city-by-city detail for this county
Waxhaw — 18 customers reported out · utility est. Oct 4, 12:45 AM EDT
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An alert when an outage is detected here, another once a dependable restoration estimate is ready, and an all-clear when the outage we're tracking looks substantially restored (~90% of customers back). No email, no account — anonymous usage stats only.
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 Monroe 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 — Union County, NC
Last significant outage: Oct 2, 2026 — peaked at 1,113 customers, restored in ~6.5 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 18 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 4 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 22, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Union County, NC
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
888 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 7 major events of 10,000+ customers.
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: ~51,973 customers out in May 2018, restored after about 1.5 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2023.
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 in Union County include Indian Trail, Monroe, Waxhaw, Stallings, Weddington, Wesley Chapel, Unionville and Marvin. 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 Union County, NC?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Union 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.
