Power outage history
Warren County North Carolina
8.0hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
53rd most of 100 in North Carolina 1.2× the national median
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 Warren's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 14 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Warren, hours without power per customer
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 2021 | Winter storm | 8,142 | 56% | 2.6 d | 34 h | 151k |
| Oct 11, 2018 | Hurricane Michael | 3,463 | 24% | 3.1 d | 2.6 d | 95k |
| May 9, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 3,031 | 21% | 30 h | 7.2 h | 39k |
| May 16, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 4,376 | 30% | 27 h | 16 h | 32k |
| Jan 11, 2022 | No storm report | 5,390 | 37% | 11 h | 7.5 h | 32k |
| Dec 9, 2018 | Winter storm | 1,477 | 10% | 27 h | 24 h | 26k |
| Oct 8, 2016 | Hurricane Matthew | 921 | 6% | 35 h | 19 h | 20k |
| Dec 23, 2022 | No storm report | 2,426 | 17% | 29 h | 6.0 h | 16k |
| Jun 19, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 2,272 | 16% | 21 h | 13 h | 15k |
| Sep 1, 2024 | No storm report | 1,576 | 11% | 12 h | 3.0 h | 12k |
| Sep 4, 2016 | Hurricane Hermine | 1,967 | 13% | 8.8 h | 8.5 h | 12k |
| Sep 30, 2022 | Hurricane Ian | 1,635 | 11% | 27 h | 30 min | 12k |
| Mar 1, 2020 | No storm report | 4,708 | 32% | 3.5 h | 2.2 h | 11k |
| Jul 8, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 1,324 | 9% | 18 h | 18 h | 10.0k |
| May 16, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,028 | 7% | 11 h | 3.8 h | 9.3k |
| Jul 28, 2024 | No storm report | 944 | 6% | 11 h | 5.5 h | 9.0k |
| Jun 25, 2019 | No storm report | 4,761 | 33% | 2.0 h | 2.0 h | 8.9k |
| Jun 20, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 1,187 | 8% | 24 h | 3.5 h | 8.9k |
| Jan 28, 2021 | Winter storm | 1,234 | 8% | 12 h | 6.5 h | 7.8k |
| Oct 27, 2025 | No storm report | 538 | 4% | 17 h | – | 7.8k |
| Sep 14, 2018 | Hurricane Florence | 1,233 | 8% | 14 h | 8.0 h | 7.2k |
| Oct 31, 2019 | No storm report | 1,976 | 14% | 10 h | 2.2 h | 7.2k |
| Feb 24, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 3,743 | 26% | 8.0 h | 30 min | 6.9k |
| Jan 24, 2019 | No storm report | 886 | 6% | 7.5 h | 48 min | 6.6k |
| Jan 9, 2024 | No storm report | 1,727 | 12% | 10 h | 5.2 h | 6.2k |
| Feb 14, 2015 | No storm report | 1,752 | 12% | 14 h | 1.8 h | 6.0k |
| Feb 16, 2016 | Winter storm | 1,116 | 8% | 8.0 h | 7.5 h | 5.9k |
| Jul 27, 2025 | Heat | 892 | 6% | 13 h | 13 h | 5.7k |
| May 16, 2015 | No storm report | 4,749 | 33% | 1.2 h | 1.5 h | 5.3k |
| Sep 23, 2023 | Tropical Storm Ophelia | 2,290 | 16% | 7.2 h | 2.2 h | 5.1k |
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 Warren from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 38%
- Winter storm 25%
- Tropical storm 18%
- Thunderstorms 17%
- Windstorm 0.9%
- Heat 0.8%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Warren
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 Progress | Investor Owned | 183 | 145 | 1.41 | 15.2 | 1.4M |
| Halifax Electric Member Corp | NC | 207 | 207 | 1.66 | 14.5 | 128k |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | Investor Owned | 286 | 137 | 1.49 | 12.7 | 109k |
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | Cooperative | – | – | – | 13.9 | 138 |
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
- Brunswick, VA 24 h
- Mecklenburg, VA 12 h
- Vance 9.7 h
- Northampton 8.6 h
- Warren (this county) 8.0 h
- Franklin 7.7 h
- Nash 6.1 h
- Halifax 4.3 h
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 14,589 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 →