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2017 Rutherford County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Rutherford County, NC went without power for an average of 40.0 hours, a total of 283K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.0 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 115th 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 Rutherford 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 | May 28, 2017 05:15 | May 29, 2017 01:15 | 20h | 3,907 | 4,837 |
| 2 | June 16, 2017 04:30 | June 16, 2017 07:30 | 3h | 3,770 | 9,411 |
| 3 | March 5, 2017 05:30 | March 5, 2017 08:00 | 2h 30m | 3,301 | 2,477 |
| 4 | October 23, 2017 17:15 | October 26, 2017 22:15 | 3d 5h | 3,091 | 92K |
| 5 | September 11, 2017 17:45 | September 15, 2017 04:15 | 3d 10h | 3,079 | 58K |
| 6 | October 8, 2017 21:30 | October 10, 2017 02:30 | 1d 5h | 3,075 | 4,448 |
| 7 | October 29, 2017 18:15 | October 30, 2017 22:15 | 1d 4h | 2,581 | 8,633 |
| 8 | January 7, 2017 04:00 | January 8, 2017 03:15 | 23h 15m | 2,086 | 19K |
| 9 | August 30, 2017 15:45 | August 30, 2017 20:45 | 5h | 1,802 | 455 |
| 10 | July 23, 2017 18:45 | July 24, 2017 13:45 | 19h | 1,746 | 4,307 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 54 reached 100+ customers, 20 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 Rutherford 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 Progress - (NC) | 2017 | 3.2 hrs | 1.52 | 2.7 hrs | 1.47 |
| Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC | 2017 | 8.8 hrs | 1.52 | 3.1 hrs | 1.11 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2017 | 3.3 hrs | 1.59 | 72 min | 1.09 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Broad River Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Bostic - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Forest City | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 7,084 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. Rutherford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rutherford 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/rutherford-county