County annual report · FIPS 37045
2016 Cleveland County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Cleveland County, NC went without power for an average of 7.5 hours, a total of 141K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 70th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 470th 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 Cleveland 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 15:30 | February 26, 2016 21:45 | 2d 6h | 3,534 | 18K |
| 2 | November 29, 2016 09:15 | November 30, 2016 02:15 | 17h | 2,219 | 16K |
| 3 | May 1, 2016 22:00 | May 2, 2016 18:30 | 20h 30m | 2,084 | 19K |
| 4 | July 16, 2016 18:30 | July 18, 2016 08:15 | 1d 13h | 1,822 | 16K |
| 5 | September 30, 2016 17:45 | September 30, 2016 19:45 | 2h | 1,424 | 1,780 |
| 6 | July 5, 2016 19:45 | July 6, 2016 07:15 | 11h 30m | 1,310 | 4,620 |
| 7 | August 29, 2016 14:15 | August 30, 2016 01:30 | 11h 15m | 1,145 | 628 |
| 8 | April 15, 2016 12:15 | April 15, 2016 19:45 | 7h 30m | 1,111 | 325 |
| 9 | July 12, 2016 22:45 | July 13, 2016 07:00 | 8h 15m | 928 | 3,557 |
| 10 | June 14, 2016 22:45 | June 15, 2016 09:30 | 10h 45m | 860 | 1,014 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 56 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 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 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2016 | 2.0 hrs | 1.14 | 47 min | 0.57 |
| City of Shelby - (NC) | 2016 | 86 min | 0.94 | 29 min | 0.53 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Broad River Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Kings Mountain - (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 ÷ 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, 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/cleveland-county