County annual report · FIPS 37035
2019 Catawba County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Catawba County, NC went without power for an average of 20.4 hours, a total of 167K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 212th 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 Catawba 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 | February 11, 2019 09:45 | February 11, 2019 16:45 | 7h | 3,602 | 11K |
| 2 | April 26, 2019 18:15 | April 28, 2019 03:45 | 1d 9h | 2,748 | 6,785 |
| 3 | July 14, 2019 20:30 | July 15, 2019 04:45 | 8h 15m | 2,426 | 13K |
| 4 | August 7, 2019 15:00 | August 7, 2019 21:30 | 6h 30m | 2,353 | 2,553 |
| 5 | May 3, 2019 00:15 | May 3, 2019 02:30 | 2h 15m | 2,343 | 2,990 |
| 6 | June 8, 2019 00:00 | June 11, 2019 21:30 | 3d 21h | 2,240 | 10K |
| 7 | January 13, 2019 07:15 | January 14, 2019 20:15 | 1d 13h | 2,190 | 10K |
| 8 | July 11, 2019 18:45 | July 12, 2019 08:30 | 13h 45m | 1,684 | 935 |
| 9 | February 19, 2019 12:45 | February 19, 2019 21:45 | 9h | 1,358 | 2,716 |
| 10 | March 9, 2019 01:45 | March 9, 2019 12:00 | 10h 15m | 1,336 | 3,370 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 64 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 Catawba 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 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2018 | 6.8 hrs | 1.63 | 1.9 hrs | 0.82 |
| City of Newton - (NC) | 2018 | 3.0 hrs | 2.09 | 29 min | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Maiden - (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 90% of North Carolina's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 8,165 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. Catawba County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Catawba 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/catawba-county