County annual report · FIPS 37035
2017 Catawba County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Catawba County, NC went without power for an average of 113.4 hours, a total of 926K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.0 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 10th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Catawba County, 2017
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 23, 2017 20:45 | October 28, 2017 02:45 | 4d 6h | 30,796 | 763K |
| 2 | December 8, 2017 18:15 | December 10, 2017 18:45 | 2d | 3,017 | 24K |
| 3 | June 23, 2017 06:00 | June 24, 2017 02:00 | 20h | 2,987 | 3,494 |
| 4 | August 25, 2017 04:15 | August 25, 2017 05:30 | 1h 15m | 2,020 | 2,525 |
| 5 | July 18, 2017 15:30 | July 18, 2017 20:15 | 4h 45m | 1,881 | 2,718 |
| 6 | July 31, 2017 17:45 | August 2, 2017 07:15 | 1d 13h | 1,757 | 3,683 |
| 7 | October 16, 2017 00:30 | October 16, 2017 04:30 | 4h | 1,606 | 1,970 |
| 8 | June 16, 2017 21:30 | June 17, 2017 07:15 | 9h 45m | 1,583 | 3,011 |
| 9 | September 7, 2017 08:00 | September 7, 2017 19:30 | 11h 30m | 1,305 | 2,110 |
| 10 | December 15, 2017 18:30 | December 16, 2017 09:00 | 14h 30m | 1,293 | 3,092 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 84 reached 100+ customers, 19 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 2017, 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 | 2017 | 8.8 hrs | 1.52 | 3.1 hrs | 1.11 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2017 | 3.0 hrs | 1.26 | 1.6 hrs | 1.02 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2017 | 3.3 hrs | 1.59 | 72 min | 1.09 |
| City of Newton - (NC) | 2017 | 32 min | 0.85 | 21 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/north-carolina/catawba-county