County annual report · FIPS 37035
2018 Catawba County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Catawba County, NC went without power for an average of 39.6 hours, a total of 324K customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 149th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Catawba County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 12, 2018 06:15 | January 12, 2018 13:00 | 6h 45m | 8,584 | 17K |
| 2 | November 24, 2018 05:30 | November 26, 2018 02:00 | 1d 20h | 8,458 | 91K |
| 3 | January 23, 2018 13:45 | January 23, 2018 20:45 | 7h | 5,470 | 8,509 |
| 4 | July 26, 2018 01:45 | July 26, 2018 06:15 | 4h 30m | 3,715 | 4,704 |
| 5 | May 24, 2018 01:15 | May 24, 2018 06:00 | 4h 45m | 3,606 | 11K |
| 6 | July 31, 2018 11:15 | August 1, 2018 07:45 | 20h 30m | 3,080 | 6,821 |
| 7 | October 26, 2018 08:00 | October 26, 2018 14:45 | 6h 45m | 2,575 | 3,791 |
| 8 | October 11, 2018 11:15 | October 15, 2018 01:30 | 3d 14h | 2,045 | 28K |
| 9 | August 7, 2018 12:45 | August 10, 2018 01:45 | 2d 13h | 1,606 | 11K |
| 10 | May 11, 2018 11:45 | May 12, 2018 03:45 | 16h | 1,600 | 830 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 80 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Catawba County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 13.1 hrs | 1.81 | 3.7 hrs | 1.19 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2018 | 10.9 hrs | 1.77 | 2.0 hrs | 1.07 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2018 | 6.8 hrs | 1.63 | 1.9 hrs | 0.82 |
| City of Newton - (NC) | 2018 | 3.0 hrs | 2.09 | 29 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 82% of North Carolina's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/north-carolina/catawba-county