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2017 Lincoln County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Lincoln County, NC went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 62K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.0 hours). That ranks 70th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1500th 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 Lincoln 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 | February 8, 2017 21:45 | February 9, 2017 09:15 | 11h 30m | 6,955 | 9,881 |
| 2 | June 26, 2017 11:30 | June 26, 2017 20:15 | 8h 45m | 1,670 | 6,357 |
| 3 | July 9, 2017 11:15 | July 9, 2017 11:45 | 30m | 1,076 | 538 |
| 4 | June 4, 2017 21:30 | June 5, 2017 16:00 | 18h 30m | 977 | 1,130 |
| 5 | July 8, 2017 21:45 | July 9, 2017 05:15 | 7h 30m | 757 | 2,116 |
| 6 | May 24, 2017 18:15 | May 25, 2017 07:30 | 13h 15m | 726 | 1,421 |
| 7 | December 8, 2017 23:15 | December 9, 2017 06:30 | 7h 15m | 616 | 2,972 |
| 8 | July 5, 2017 13:30 | July 6, 2017 02:30 | 13h | 526 | 233 |
| 9 | July 1, 2017 19:00 | July 2, 2017 11:30 | 16h 30m | 500 | 1,941 |
| 10 | May 21, 2017 16:30 | May 22, 2017 20:30 | 1d 4h | 405 | 2,930 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 28 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 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 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/lincoln-county