County annual report · FIPS 37045
2018 Cleveland County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Cleveland County, NC went without power for an average of 13.9 hours, a total of 262K customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 59th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 401st 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 Cleveland 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 | June 1, 2018 21:30 | June 2, 2018 21:45 | 1d | 5,322 | 31K |
| 2 | May 26, 2018 17:15 | May 27, 2018 06:45 | 13h 30m | 4,685 | 13K |
| 3 | August 8, 2018 20:30 | August 10, 2018 04:45 | 1d 8h | 3,096 | 10K |
| 4 | May 30, 2018 01:15 | May 31, 2018 06:45 | 1d 5h | 2,623 | 25K |
| 5 | July 17, 2018 11:30 | July 18, 2018 01:45 | 14h 15m | 2,036 | 4,741 |
| 6 | November 24, 2018 03:30 | November 25, 2018 11:30 | 1d 8h | 1,924 | 20K |
| 7 | February 24, 2018 20:30 | February 24, 2018 20:45 | 15m | 1,850 | 463 |
| 8 | July 22, 2018 18:00 | July 23, 2018 02:15 | 8h 15m | 1,787 | 3,612 |
| 9 | September 15, 2018 04:00 | September 17, 2018 20:45 | 2d 16h | 1,782 | 22K |
| 10 | August 21, 2018 22:30 | August 22, 2018 20:15 | 21h 45m | 1,678 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 58 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 Cleveland 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 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2018 | 6.8 hrs | 1.63 | 1.9 hrs | 0.82 |
| City of Shelby - (NC) | 2018 | 3.1 hrs | 1.21 | 54 min | 0.70 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Broad River Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Kings Mountain - (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 ÷ 18,853 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. Cleveland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cleveland 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/cleveland-county