County annual report · FIPS 37109
2018 Lincoln County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Lincoln County, NC went without power for an average of 10.0 hours, a total of 256K customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 68th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 550th 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 Lincoln 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 10:15 | October 14, 2018 20:30 | 3d 10h | 6,008 | 140K |
| 2 | August 8, 2018 21:15 | August 10, 2018 21:30 | 2d | 2,144 | 46K |
| 3 | October 26, 2018 02:30 | October 26, 2018 04:30 | 2h | 2,054 | 2,973 |
| 4 | May 26, 2018 21:15 | May 27, 2018 09:45 | 12h 30m | 2,004 | 11K |
| 5 | December 6, 2018 11:15 | December 6, 2018 20:30 | 9h 15m | 1,398 | 558 |
| 6 | January 16, 2018 10:15 | January 16, 2018 16:15 | 6h | 1,262 | 4,906 |
| 7 | June 3, 2018 23:30 | June 4, 2018 17:30 | 18h | 1,235 | 6,940 |
| 8 | February 6, 2018 13:45 | February 6, 2018 16:15 | 2h 30m | 1,126 | 569 |
| 9 | July 24, 2018 12:15 | July 25, 2018 00:15 | 12h | 1,001 | 1,317 |
| 10 | August 3, 2018 01:45 | August 3, 2018 16:30 | 14h 45m | 930 | 2,166 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 35 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Lincoln 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 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lincolnton - (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 ÷ 25,563 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. Lincoln County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county