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2018 Rutherford County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Rutherford County, NC went without power for an average of 116.2 hours, a total of 823K customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 42nd 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 Rutherford 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 | December 9, 2018 03:00 | December 14, 2018 22:15 | 5d 19h | 14,250 | 624K |
| 2 | February 24, 2018 13:45 | February 25, 2018 06:00 | 16h 15m | 3,981 | 1,060 |
| 3 | October 21, 2018 11:45 | October 22, 2018 07:15 | 19h 30m | 3,039 | 8,556 |
| 4 | June 18, 2018 01:45 | June 18, 2018 06:15 | 4h 30m | 3,023 | 2,273 |
| 5 | October 11, 2018 09:00 | October 12, 2018 23:30 | 1d 14h | 2,703 | 23K |
| 6 | February 12, 2018 23:45 | February 13, 2018 09:15 | 9h 30m | 1,780 | 2,876 |
| 7 | August 31, 2018 06:45 | September 1, 2018 01:15 | 18h 30m | 1,622 | 20K |
| 8 | March 15, 2018 15:00 | March 15, 2018 19:15 | 4h 15m | 1,616 | 812 |
| 9 | July 6, 2018 19:15 | July 7, 2018 18:45 | 23h 30m | 1,411 | 8,569 |
| 10 | July 9, 2018 14:15 | July 9, 2018 21:30 | 7h 15m | 1,407 | 943 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 70 reached 100+ customers, 22 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 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 Progress - (NC) | 2018 | 43.0 hrs | 2.71 | 2.6 hrs | 1.33 |
| 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 |
| 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 82% of North Carolina's customers in 2018; 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, 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/rutherford-county