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2019 Rowan County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Rowan County, NC went without power for an average of 12.8 hours, a total of 217K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 422nd 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 Rowan 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 19:45 | April 28, 2019 22:45 | 2d 3h | 4,426 | 50K |
| 2 | October 31, 2019 00:00 | November 2, 2019 05:15 | 2d 5h | 4,087 | 19K |
| 3 | June 20, 2019 13:30 | June 21, 2019 22:00 | 1d 8h | 3,372 | 9,960 |
| 4 | October 2, 2019 13:15 | October 3, 2019 04:00 | 14h 45m | 3,369 | 1,011 |
| 5 | June 5, 2019 01:15 | June 5, 2019 17:00 | 15h 45m | 2,095 | 4,957 |
| 6 | May 7, 2019 18:30 | May 8, 2019 01:30 | 7h | 1,803 | 1,679 |
| 7 | August 31, 2019 21:45 | September 1, 2019 03:00 | 5h 15m | 1,763 | 4,345 |
| 8 | April 26, 2019 13:15 | April 26, 2019 18:30 | 5h 15m | 1,754 | 3,072 |
| 9 | June 13, 2019 07:45 | June 13, 2019 21:45 | 14h | 1,618 | 2,676 |
| 10 | May 8, 2019 13:45 | May 9, 2019 00:45 | 11h | 1,542 | 6,241 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 83 reached 100+ customers, 20 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 Rowan 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 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Landis - (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 ÷ 16,951 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. Rowan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rowan 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/rowan-county