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2019 Rutherford County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Rutherford County, NC went without power for an average of 18.8 hours, a total of 133K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 242nd 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 Rutherford 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 | June 25, 2019 22:30 | June 26, 2019 08:15 | 9h 45m | 3,047 | 5,354 |
| 2 | May 31, 2019 22:00 | June 1, 2019 11:15 | 13h 15m | 1,664 | 6,719 |
| 3 | August 22, 2019 21:30 | August 23, 2019 19:00 | 21h 30m | 1,641 | 16K |
| 4 | October 2, 2019 10:30 | October 2, 2019 18:00 | 7h 30m | 1,639 | 497 |
| 5 | April 26, 2019 17:30 | April 28, 2019 03:30 | 1d 10h | 1,618 | 12K |
| 6 | February 20, 2019 11:15 | February 21, 2019 00:00 | 12h 45m | 1,370 | 1,623 |
| 7 | February 28, 2019 13:15 | February 28, 2019 21:15 | 8h | 1,346 | 1,358 |
| 8 | January 4, 2019 07:45 | January 4, 2019 18:15 | 10h 30m | 1,345 | 5,555 |
| 9 | February 13, 2019 10:45 | February 14, 2019 07:00 | 20h 15m | 1,197 | 1,610 |
| 10 | October 3, 2019 10:45 | October 3, 2019 19:45 | 9h | 1,188 | 603 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 65 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Rutherford 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 Progress - (NC) | 2018 | 43.0 hrs | 2.71 | 2.6 hrs | 1.33 |
| 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 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Broad River Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Bostic - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Forest City | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 7,084 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. Rutherford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rutherford 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/rutherford-county