County annual report · FIPS 37025
2019 Cabarrus County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Cabarrus County, NC went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 127K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 75th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1472nd of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cabarrus County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 26, 2019 13:45 | April 28, 2019 01:45 | 1d 12h | 2,222 | 16K |
| 2 | August 21, 2019 13:15 | August 21, 2019 22:15 | 9h | 1,733 | 2,580 |
| 3 | November 21, 2019 15:15 | November 21, 2019 18:30 | 3h 15m | 1,658 | 1,659 |
| 4 | November 11, 2019 13:30 | November 12, 2019 00:30 | 11h | 1,656 | 885 |
| 5 | October 31, 2019 07:30 | November 1, 2019 05:45 | 22h 15m | 1,645 | 10K |
| 6 | September 27, 2019 18:45 | September 28, 2019 02:30 | 7h 45m | 1,639 | 815 |
| 7 | February 24, 2019 16:30 | February 25, 2019 06:15 | 13h 45m | 1,615 | 3,729 |
| 8 | July 4, 2019 15:30 | July 5, 2019 07:30 | 16h | 1,107 | 4,697 |
| 9 | February 15, 2019 14:00 | February 15, 2019 21:15 | 7h 15m | 956 | 1,360 |
| 10 | April 2, 2019 13:00 | April 2, 2019 18:30 | 5h 30m | 944 | 258 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 59 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Cabarrus County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 |
| Union Electric Membership Corp - (NC) | 2018 | 4.6 hrs | 1.86 | 63 min | 0.85 |
| City of Concord - (NC) | 2018 | 49 min | 0.74 | 49 min | 0.74 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 90% of North Carolina's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 36,290 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. Cabarrus County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cabarrus County, NC annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/north-carolina/cabarrus-county