County annual report · FIPS 37035
2016 Catawba County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Catawba County, NC went without power for an average of 25.0 hours, a total of 204K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 118th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Catawba County, 2016
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 24, 2016 17:00 | February 27, 2016 02:45 | 2d 9h | 3,908 | 51K |
| 2 | July 16, 2016 07:15 | July 18, 2016 04:00 | 1d 20h | 2,258 | 20K |
| 3 | June 2, 2016 14:00 | June 3, 2016 13:30 | 23h 30m | 2,230 | 7,332 |
| 4 | July 5, 2016 13:15 | July 6, 2016 08:30 | 19h 15m | 1,862 | 3,483 |
| 5 | June 4, 2016 19:30 | June 5, 2016 18:15 | 22h 45m | 1,856 | 4,889 |
| 6 | July 30, 2016 01:15 | July 30, 2016 04:30 | 3h 15m | 1,844 | 1,852 |
| 7 | September 11, 2016 09:15 | September 11, 2016 18:15 | 9h | 1,679 | 8,385 |
| 8 | July 11, 2016 11:00 | July 12, 2016 08:45 | 21h 45m | 1,631 | 1,401 |
| 9 | September 27, 2016 14:15 | September 27, 2016 16:45 | 2h 30m | 1,618 | 2,831 |
| 10 | May 21, 2016 01:45 | May 21, 2016 18:15 | 16h 30m | 1,614 | 1,757 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 64 reached 100+ customers, 19 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 Catawba County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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 | 2016 | 5.2 hrs | 1.34 | 2.8 hrs | 1.08 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2016 | 2.5 hrs | 1.15 | 1.7 hrs | 0.96 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2016 | 2.0 hrs | 1.14 | 47 min | 0.57 |
| City of Newton - (NC) | 2016 | 18 min | 0.30 | 18 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 2016; 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, 2016, 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/2016/north-carolina/catawba-county