County annual report · FIPS 37159
2017 Rowan County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Rowan County, NC went without power for an average of 11.5 hours, a total of 195K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.0 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 476th 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 Rowan 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 | July 22, 2017 14:00 | July 23, 2017 17:15 | 1d 3h | 4,114 | 41K |
| 2 | April 5, 2017 19:45 | April 6, 2017 04:45 | 9h | 1,920 | 5,061 |
| 3 | March 21, 2017 14:00 | March 21, 2017 21:15 | 7h 15m | 1,832 | 972 |
| 4 | October 3, 2017 07:45 | October 3, 2017 08:45 | 1h | 1,296 | 1,294 |
| 5 | May 1, 2017 12:00 | May 1, 2017 20:00 | 8h | 1,231 | 828 |
| 6 | September 17, 2017 02:30 | September 17, 2017 09:00 | 6h 30m | 1,187 | 5,273 |
| 7 | July 18, 2017 12:45 | July 19, 2017 16:45 | 1d 4h | 1,154 | 2,290 |
| 8 | June 19, 2017 02:15 | June 20, 2017 02:15 | 1d | 1,146 | 9,795 |
| 9 | September 1, 2017 18:45 | September 2, 2017 10:15 | 15h 30m | 1,112 | 5,035 |
| 10 | March 13, 2017 13:30 | March 14, 2017 08:45 | 19h 15m | 1,092 | 1,758 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 86 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 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 |
| Union Electric Membership Corp - (NC) | 2017 | 84 min | 0.82 | 50 min | 0.54 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/rowan-county