Power Out Map
– 0% of Anson out 0 customers out in North Carolina

Power outage history

Anson County North Carolina

25hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

11th most of 100 in North Carolina 3.8× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Florence · Sep 15, 2018 79% of customers out · 90% back in 2.5 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 25h / yr State average 8.3 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 18.4 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 6.8days Hurricane Florence, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 59% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2018 2.3 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 6,334 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Anson's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2018 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.3 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Anson, hours without power per customer

AnsonUS median countyNorth Carolina average
0 20 40 60 80 11 ’15 46 ’16 15 ’17 56 ’18 15 ’19 41 ’20 5.5 ’21 31 ’22 11 ’23 26 ’24 13 ’25 NC 8.3 US 6.6

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Sep 15, 2018 Hurricane Florence 5,018 79% 6.8 d 2.5 d 218k
Oct 8, 2016 Hurricane Matthew 5,346 84% 4.0 d 2.9 d 196k
Apr 13, 2020 Tornadoes 6,334 100% 2.6 d 39 h 123k
May 22, 2020 Thunderstorms 5,005 79% 22 h 20 h 67k
Jan 9, 2024 No storm report 3,503 55% 28 h 23 h 58k
Jan 16, 2022 Winter storm 4,258 67% 34 h 24 h 55k
Oct 11, 2018 Hurricane Michael 2,834 45% 36 h 30 h 49k
Apr 26, 2022 Thunderstorms 4,774 75% 13 h 10 h 39k
Sep 27, 2024 Hurricane Helene 4,577 72% 17 h 5.2 h 22k
Sep 30, 2022 Hurricane Ian 1,677 26% 31 h 29 h 22k
Jul 30, 2018 No storm report 6,334 100% 8.8 h 8.5 h 21k
Feb 24, 2016 Thunderstorms 2,066 33% 27 h 22 h 20k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +8h 90% by +26h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Anson from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 41%
  • Tropical storm 29%
  • Thunderstorms 15%
  • Tornadoes 10%
  • Winter storm 4.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Anson

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole North Carolina territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC Investor Owned 216 172 1.35 13.4 2.0M
Duke Energy Progress Investor Owned 183 145 1.41 15.2 1.4M
Pee Dee Electric Member Corp Cooperative 285 171 2.72 15.6 19k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across North Carolina

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

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About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 6,334 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →