County annual report · FIPS 37035
2015 Catawba County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Catawba County, NC went without power for an average of 20.4 hours, a total of 166K customer-hours (North Carolina average 7.5 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 115th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Catawba County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 23, 2015 15:30 | November 24, 2015 01:45 | 10h 15m | 14,757 | 25K |
| 2 | July 21, 2015 21:15 | July 22, 2015 09:00 | 11h 45m | 8,824 | 23K |
| 3 | October 3, 2015 00:30 | October 5, 2015 02:15 | 2d 1h | 3,153 | 14K |
| 4 | October 9, 2015 19:15 | October 10, 2015 02:00 | 6h 45m | 2,678 | 2,415 |
| 5 | July 8, 2015 06:00 | July 9, 2015 06:30 | 1d | 2,450 | 15K |
| 6 | September 28, 2015 15:00 | September 29, 2015 03:30 | 12h 30m | 2,374 | 1,812 |
| 7 | April 12, 2015 05:15 | April 12, 2015 05:45 | 30m | 1,927 | 550 |
| 8 | August 24, 2015 02:30 | August 24, 2015 08:30 | 6h | 1,924 | 2,751 |
| 9 | January 4, 2015 16:15 | January 4, 2015 23:15 | 7h | 1,598 | 1,687 |
| 10 | June 17, 2015 12:30 | June 17, 2015 21:15 | 8h 45m | 1,594 | 1,670 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 56 reached 100+ customers, 16 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Catawba County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC | 2015 | 5.3 hrs | 1.29 | 2.6 hrs | 1.02 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2015 | 2.2 hrs | 1.12 | 1.6 hrs | 0.96 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2015 | 62 min | 0.82 | 55 min | 0.79 |
| City of Newton - (NC) | 2015 | 24 min | 0.47 | 10 min | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Maiden - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of North Carolina's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 8,165 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Catawba County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Catawba County, NC annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/north-carolina/catawba-county