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2018 Gaston County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Gaston County, NC went without power for an average of 11.7 hours, a total of 554K customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 469th 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 Gaston 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 | October 11, 2018 12:15 | October 14, 2018 22:15 | 3d 10h | 7,063 | 152K |
| 2 | September 15, 2018 04:00 | September 18, 2018 02:15 | 2d 22h | 3,997 | 68K |
| 3 | December 9, 2018 06:45 | December 11, 2018 04:00 | 1d 21h | 3,455 | 37K |
| 4 | July 29, 2018 23:45 | July 30, 2018 10:30 | 10h 45m | 3,194 | 8,665 |
| 5 | November 15, 2018 07:45 | November 16, 2018 05:00 | 21h 15m | 2,887 | 18K |
| 6 | April 15, 2018 09:45 | April 17, 2018 06:30 | 1d 20h | 2,656 | 30K |
| 7 | October 31, 2018 09:45 | November 1, 2018 06:45 | 21h | 2,551 | 4,583 |
| 8 | June 14, 2018 13:30 | June 15, 2018 23:45 | 1d 10h | 2,346 | 17K |
| 9 | June 22, 2018 12:45 | June 23, 2018 03:45 | 15h | 2,312 | 4,648 |
| 10 | December 3, 2018 17:30 | December 3, 2018 20:00 | 2h 30m | 2,138 | 3,212 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 89 reached 100+ customers, 21 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 Gaston 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 |
| York Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 2.1 hrs | 1.22 | 83 min | 0.91 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Kings Mountain - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Cherryville - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Gastonia - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Dallas - (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 ÷ 47,215 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. Gaston County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Gaston 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/gaston-county