County annual report · FIPS 37045
2019 Cleveland County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Cleveland County, NC went without power for an average of 5.3 hours, a total of 100K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 64th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1023rd 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 Cleveland 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 | January 11, 2019 10:15 | January 11, 2019 10:30 | 15m | 2,513 | 628 |
| 2 | July 13, 2019 04:30 | July 13, 2019 07:15 | 2h 45m | 2,041 | 5,122 |
| 3 | April 26, 2019 18:30 | April 27, 2019 18:15 | 23h 45m | 1,921 | 12K |
| 4 | June 7, 2019 14:00 | June 7, 2019 23:30 | 9h 30m | 1,762 | 3,697 |
| 5 | September 28, 2019 12:00 | September 29, 2019 02:15 | 14h 15m | 1,239 | 5,819 |
| 6 | May 12, 2019 01:45 | May 12, 2019 03:00 | 1h 15m | 1,195 | 598 |
| 7 | June 30, 2019 23:00 | July 1, 2019 10:00 | 11h | 1,129 | 2,468 |
| 8 | September 11, 2019 12:45 | September 11, 2019 16:15 | 3h 30m | 1,062 | 333 |
| 9 | June 30, 2019 09:00 | June 30, 2019 09:30 | 30m | 1,057 | 529 |
| 10 | May 31, 2019 18:15 | June 1, 2019 02:15 | 8h | 1,040 | 829 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 55 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Cleveland 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 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2018 | 6.8 hrs | 1.63 | 1.9 hrs | 0.82 |
| City of Shelby - (NC) | 2018 | 3.1 hrs | 1.21 | 54 min | 0.70 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Broad River Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Kings Mountain - (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 ÷ 18,853 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. Cleveland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cleveland 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/cleveland-county