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2019 Gaston County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Gaston County, NC went without power for an average of 5.3 hours, a total of 248K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 65th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1042nd 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 Gaston 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 | May 23, 2019 12:45 | May 24, 2019 00:45 | 12h | 6,459 | 8,102 |
| 2 | May 10, 2019 05:00 | May 10, 2019 07:45 | 2h 45m | 2,983 | 8,203 |
| 3 | June 22, 2019 19:45 | June 24, 2019 05:30 | 1d 9h | 2,719 | 36K |
| 4 | August 1, 2019 14:00 | August 2, 2019 20:00 | 1d 6h | 2,586 | 13K |
| 5 | April 26, 2019 18:30 | April 28, 2019 02:30 | 1d 8h | 2,406 | 31K |
| 6 | May 2, 2019 08:30 | May 2, 2019 10:15 | 1h 45m | 2,176 | 1,633 |
| 7 | August 24, 2019 07:30 | August 25, 2019 02:15 | 18h 45m | 2,172 | 3,816 |
| 8 | January 5, 2019 03:15 | January 5, 2019 21:45 | 18h 30m | 2,084 | 14K |
| 9 | June 27, 2019 14:15 | June 28, 2019 06:45 | 16h 30m | 2,047 | 2,504 |
| 10 | October 31, 2019 12:15 | November 1, 2019 08:00 | 19h 45m | 1,868 | 4,147 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 75 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 Gaston 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 |
| York Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 2.1 hrs | 1.22 | 83 min | 0.91 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Kings Mountain - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Cherryville - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Gastonia - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Dallas - (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 ÷ 47,215 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. Gaston County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Gaston 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/gaston-county