County annual report · FIPS 37159
2020 Rowan County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Rowan County, NC went without power for an average of 22.7 hours, a total of 385K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 378th 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 Rowan 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 08:30 | November 1, 2020 15:00 | 3d 6h | 7,948 | 97K |
| 2 | April 12, 2020 23:15 | April 15, 2020 01:00 | 2d 1h | 5,403 | 79K |
| 3 | February 6, 2020 17:15 | February 8, 2020 21:15 | 2d 4h | 4,427 | 51K |
| 4 | November 10, 2020 19:15 | November 11, 2020 05:45 | 10h 30m | 4,157 | 8,814 |
| 5 | January 12, 2020 00:00 | January 12, 2020 21:45 | 21h 45m | 3,969 | 13K |
| 6 | November 16, 2020 13:45 | November 16, 2020 22:15 | 8h 30m | 2,461 | 2,253 |
| 7 | July 15, 2020 13:00 | July 16, 2020 04:30 | 15h 30m | 2,441 | 5,749 |
| 8 | June 29, 2020 20:30 | June 30, 2020 03:30 | 7h | 2,435 | 6,039 |
| 9 | February 11, 2020 15:45 | February 12, 2020 02:45 | 11h | 2,428 | 3,804 |
| 10 | July 7, 2020 13:45 | July 7, 2020 18:45 | 5h | 1,818 | 1,825 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 92 reached 100+ customers, 22 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 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 |
| Union Electric Membership Corp - (NC) | 2020 | 3.1 hrs | 1.25 | 61 min | 0.67 |
| 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 91% of North Carolina's customers in 2020; 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, 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/rowan-county