County annual report · FIPS 37109
2020 Lincoln County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Lincoln County, NC went without power for an average of 9.0 hours, a total of 229K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 869th 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 Lincoln 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 06:45 | November 2, 2020 22:00 | 4d 15h | 8,551 | 102K |
| 2 | June 29, 2020 16:30 | June 30, 2020 03:45 | 11h 15m | 3,226 | 2,953 |
| 3 | August 13, 2020 22:30 | August 14, 2020 22:00 | 23h 30m | 2,855 | 20K |
| 4 | April 9, 2020 19:45 | April 10, 2020 07:15 | 11h 30m | 2,578 | 4,048 |
| 5 | January 12, 2020 02:15 | January 12, 2020 21:00 | 18h 45m | 2,162 | 6,728 |
| 6 | February 22, 2020 23:15 | February 23, 2020 23:45 | 1d | 1,459 | 21K |
| 7 | April 13, 2020 02:30 | April 14, 2020 19:30 | 1d 17h | 1,380 | 7,080 |
| 8 | October 9, 2020 13:45 | October 12, 2020 12:15 | 2d 22h | 1,253 | 7,506 |
| 9 | May 23, 2020 04:15 | May 23, 2020 19:00 | 14h 45m | 1,207 | 5,116 |
| 10 | October 15, 2020 14:30 | October 15, 2020 19:00 | 4h 30m | 1,103 | 964 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 43 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 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 |
| 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 91% of North Carolina's customers in 2020; 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, 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/lincoln-county