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2015 Lincoln County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Lincoln County, NC went without power for an average of 4.4 hours, a total of 113K customer-hours (North Carolina average 7.5 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 630th 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 Lincoln 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 | September 29, 2015 23:30 | September 30, 2015 00:15 | 45m | 2,650 | 1,988 |
| 2 | June 20, 2015 19:15 | June 21, 2015 15:45 | 20h 30m | 2,491 | 12K |
| 3 | May 9, 2015 05:30 | May 9, 2015 09:30 | 4h | 2,332 | 8,829 |
| 4 | November 9, 2015 13:15 | November 10, 2015 05:30 | 16h 15m | 2,137 | 26K |
| 5 | April 14, 2015 03:45 | April 14, 2015 08:00 | 4h 15m | 1,964 | 5,968 |
| 6 | February 2, 2015 15:15 | February 3, 2015 03:30 | 12h 15m | 1,075 | 5,822 |
| 7 | October 4, 2015 13:00 | October 5, 2015 01:00 | 12h | 1,064 | 6,868 |
| 8 | December 6, 2015 23:00 | December 7, 2015 01:15 | 2h 15m | 920 | 694 |
| 9 | May 19, 2015 20:45 | May 20, 2015 02:30 | 5h 45m | 903 | 2,417 |
| 10 | August 11, 2015 01:15 | August 11, 2015 06:30 | 5h 15m | 899 | 1,402 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 39 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Lincoln 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 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lincolnton - (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 ÷ 25,563 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. Lincoln County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county