County annual report · FIPS 37035
2020 Catawba County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Catawba County, NC went without power for an average of 118.7 hours, a total of 969K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 49th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Catawba County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 29, 2020 12:15 | November 3, 2020 15:45 | 5d 3h | 26,955 | 769K |
| 2 | November 11, 2020 23:00 | November 13, 2020 01:15 | 1d 2h | 12,741 | 13K |
| 3 | June 12, 2020 01:30 | June 12, 2020 05:30 | 4h | 9,137 | 6,581 |
| 4 | July 14, 2020 12:30 | July 15, 2020 05:00 | 16h 30m | 4,777 | 6,883 |
| 5 | April 12, 2020 22:15 | April 15, 2020 02:00 | 2d 3h | 3,638 | 35K |
| 6 | January 12, 2020 02:45 | January 13, 2020 01:00 | 22h 15m | 2,913 | 32K |
| 7 | April 29, 2020 17:45 | April 29, 2020 18:45 | 1h | 2,371 | 2,369 |
| 8 | December 24, 2020 01:15 | December 24, 2020 13:15 | 12h | 2,327 | 7,617 |
| 9 | August 1, 2020 01:15 | August 1, 2020 08:30 | 7h 15m | 2,038 | 2,663 |
| 10 | August 8, 2020 22:15 | August 9, 2020 14:45 | 16h 30m | 1,986 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 80 reached 100+ customers, 21 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Catawba County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 | 2020 | 11.2 hrs | 1.71 | 3.1 hrs | 1.18 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2020 | 10.0 hrs | 1.79 | 2.2 hrs | 1.14 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2020 | 5.2 hrs | 1.38 | 86 min | 0.94 |
| City of Newton - (NC) | 2018 | 3.0 hrs | 2.09 | 29 min | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Maiden - (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 91% of North Carolina's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 8,165 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. Catawba County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Catawba County, NC annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/north-carolina/catawba-county