County annual report · FIPS 37159
2015 Rowan County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Rowan County, NC went without power for an average of 13.3 hours, a total of 225K customer-hours (North Carolina average 7.5 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 194th 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 Rowan 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 | February 26, 2015 05:00 | February 27, 2015 01:30 | 20h 30m | 7,899 | 49K |
| 2 | June 19, 2015 21:00 | June 20, 2015 09:45 | 12h 45m | 3,295 | 12K |
| 3 | June 20, 2015 11:15 | June 22, 2015 01:30 | 1d 14h | 2,947 | 18K |
| 4 | February 20, 2015 07:15 | February 21, 2015 04:00 | 20h 45m | 2,941 | 15K |
| 5 | February 17, 2015 07:30 | February 17, 2015 18:30 | 11h | 2,509 | 9,896 |
| 6 | March 5, 2015 16:30 | March 5, 2015 23:00 | 6h 30m | 2,431 | 2,259 |
| 7 | July 21, 2015 13:45 | July 22, 2015 00:45 | 11h | 2,291 | 2,816 |
| 8 | March 25, 2015 14:15 | March 25, 2015 19:00 | 4h 45m | 1,769 | 894 |
| 9 | February 14, 2015 14:45 | February 15, 2015 21:15 | 1d 6h | 1,596 | 4,637 |
| 10 | January 7, 2015 23:45 | January 8, 2015 05:30 | 5h 45m | 1,538 | 3,981 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 89 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Rowan 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 |
| Union Electric Membership Corp - (NC) | 2015 | 1.7 hrs | 0.96 | 67 min | 0.77 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Landis - (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 ÷ 16,951 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. Rowan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rowan 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/rowan-county