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2019 Lincoln County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Lincoln County, NC went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 77K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 80th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1647th 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 Lincoln 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 19, 2019 21:30 | April 20, 2019 08:45 | 11h 15m | 1,421 | 13K |
| 2 | December 27, 2019 00:00 | December 27, 2019 01:00 | 1h | 1,407 | 353 |
| 3 | May 11, 2019 18:30 | May 12, 2019 02:15 | 7h 45m | 1,341 | 787 |
| 4 | June 30, 2019 18:45 | July 1, 2019 04:45 | 10h | 1,256 | 1,675 |
| 5 | August 13, 2019 22:00 | August 14, 2019 16:15 | 18h 15m | 1,245 | 4,042 |
| 6 | October 2, 2019 11:30 | October 2, 2019 16:15 | 4h 45m | 1,064 | 2,691 |
| 7 | January 20, 2019 05:00 | January 20, 2019 06:45 | 1h 45m | 929 | 942 |
| 8 | June 9, 2019 01:30 | June 11, 2019 02:00 | 2d | 809 | 9,039 |
| 9 | June 12, 2019 06:15 | June 12, 2019 15:00 | 8h 45m | 742 | 5,937 |
| 10 | January 13, 2019 18:00 | January 14, 2019 05:30 | 11h 30m | 730 | 1,654 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 39 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Lincoln 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 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lincolnton - (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 ÷ 25,563 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. Lincoln County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county