County annual report · FIPS 37045
2015 Cleveland County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Cleveland County, NC went without power for an average of 3.7 hours, a total of 70K customer-hours (North Carolina average 7.5 hours). That ranks 57th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 762nd 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 Cleveland 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 | October 10, 2015 17:30 | October 10, 2015 18:30 | 1h | 4,081 | 2,169 |
| 2 | May 26, 2015 22:00 | May 27, 2015 09:15 | 11h 15m | 2,013 | 11K |
| 3 | September 29, 2015 23:30 | September 30, 2015 00:15 | 45m | 1,717 | 1,288 |
| 4 | June 8, 2015 14:15 | June 9, 2015 08:45 | 18h 30m | 1,594 | 7,853 |
| 5 | July 18, 2015 18:30 | July 19, 2015 01:45 | 7h 15m | 1,547 | 3,233 |
| 6 | May 21, 2015 14:15 | May 21, 2015 18:30 | 4h 15m | 1,522 | 1,143 |
| 7 | September 6, 2015 09:30 | September 6, 2015 10:30 | 1h | 1,420 | 1,418 |
| 8 | June 23, 2015 11:30 | June 23, 2015 19:45 | 8h 15m | 1,360 | 1,041 |
| 9 | October 3, 2015 07:15 | October 5, 2015 07:15 | 2d | 1,235 | 3,308 |
| 10 | June 20, 2015 20:15 | June 21, 2015 21:00 | 1d | 1,217 | 8,339 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 35 reached 100+ customers, 13 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 Cleveland 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 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2015 | 62 min | 0.82 | 55 min | 0.79 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Broad River Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Kings Mountain - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Shelby - (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 ÷ 18,853 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. Cleveland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cleveland 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/cleveland-county