– 0% of Rockingham out 0 customers out in North Carolina

Power outage history

Rockingham County North Carolina

11hours

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

42nd most of 100 in North Carolina 1.6× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Michael · Oct 11, 2018 51% of customers out · 90% back in 4.1 days

Hours without power, average customer per year 11h / yr State average 8.3 h · national median 6.6 h

Major outages a year 0.9 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers

Typical time to restore 90% 27hours Median across major outages, from the peak

Longest single outage 5.1days Hurricane Michael, over 1% of customers out

Outage hours on storm days 89% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here

Worst year 2018 34 hours without power, average customer

Electricity customers 64,916 EAGLE-I 2024 count · 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 Rockingham's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025

0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2018 was the worst well-recorded year, at 34 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Rockingham, hours without power per customer

RockinghamUS median countyNorth Carolina average

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
Oct 11, 2018	Hurricane Michael	33,309	51%	5.1 d	4.1 d	1.8M
Feb 13, 2021	Winter storm	19,333	30%	3.4 d	2.8 d	751k
Oct 29, 2020	Hurricane Zeta	14,551	22%	3.2 d	2.3 d	423k
Jan 13, 2019	Winter storm	20,355	31%	2.4 d	32 h	368k
Sep 30, 2022	Hurricane Ian	7,508	12%	34 h	13 h	145k
Jun 17, 2022	Thunderstorms	11,740	18%	48 h	41 h	142k
Jun 29, 2016	Thunderstorms	9,470	15%	29 h	27 h	134k
May 31, 2017	Thunderstorms	9,008	14%	32 h	26 h	130k
Dec 23, 2022	No storm report	8,085	12%	35 h	10 h	97k
Feb 16, 2016	Winter storm	8,256	13%	17 h	3.8 h	86k
Apr 15, 2018	Tornadoes	2,296	4%	2.1 d	–	85k
Dec 9, 2018	Winter storm	3,709	6%	30 h	14 h	75k
Jan 3, 2022	Windstorm	4,150	6%	36 h	29 h	73k
Jun 3, 2023	Thunderstorms	6,073	9%	24 h	22 h	64k
May 31, 2019	Thunderstorms	4,202	6%	25 h	24 h	50k
Feb 26, 2015	Winter storm	6,963	11%	13 h	9.0 h	45k
Aug 8, 2024	Hurricane Debby	3,750	6%	16 h	14 h	33k
Mar 24, 2018	Winter storm	2,840	4%	19 h	–	32k
Dec 8, 2017	Winter storm	2,764	4%	20 h	–	29k
Sep 27, 2024	Windstorm	4,227	7%	11 h	8.5 h	29k
Apr 7, 2018	No storm report	2,819	4%	11 h	–	29k
Mar 2, 2018	Windstorm	2,032	3%	21 h	–	24k
Feb 18, 2021	Winter storm	3,514	5%	10 h	4.2 h	21k
Jan 11, 2020	Thunderstorms	2,384	4%	14 h	–	20k
Feb 24, 2016	Thunderstorms	4,045	6%	19 h	2.5 h	18k
Feb 16, 2025	Windstorm	4,040	6%	8.5 h	8.2 h	18k
Jun 4, 2016	Thunderstorms	2,165	3%	12 h	–	16k
Jun 20, 2019	Thunderstorms	2,724	4%	7.2 h	–	13k
Oct 12, 2019	No storm report	1,385	2%	9.2 h	–	13k
Jun 21, 2015	Thunderstorms	1,986	3%	10 h	–	13k

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.

When it happens

The outage clock

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

What was happening

Weather behind the outages

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

Tropical storm 50%
Winter storm 26%
No storm on record 11%
Thunderstorms 7.7%
Windstorm 3.0%
Tornadoes 1.8%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Rockingham

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
EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp	Cooperative	169	121	1.56	11.6	124k

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

Pittsylvania, VA 24 h
Henry, VA 17 h
Rockingham (this county) 11 h
Caswell 10 h
Stokes 9.9 h
Guilford 8.2 h
Alamance 5.9 h
Forsyth 5.3 h

Across North Carolina

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All North Carolina counties →

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 64,916 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 →