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2020 Rutherford County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Rutherford County, NC went without power for an average of 141.6 hours, a total of 1.0M customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 36th 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 Rutherford 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 10:30 | November 3, 2020 13:00 | 5d 2h | 20,725 | 841K |
| 2 | April 13, 2020 05:45 | April 15, 2020 20:30 | 2d 14h | 3,900 | 28K |
| 3 | July 19, 2020 20:00 | July 20, 2020 04:30 | 8h 30m | 3,099 | 13K |
| 4 | May 19, 2020 16:30 | May 20, 2020 20:45 | 1d 4h | 2,804 | 6,152 |
| 5 | August 3, 2020 04:45 | August 4, 2020 03:00 | 22h 15m | 1,882 | 7,318 |
| 6 | December 27, 2020 06:45 | December 27, 2020 21:45 | 15h | 1,752 | 14K |
| 7 | January 11, 2020 18:30 | January 13, 2020 01:00 | 1d 6h | 1,584 | 9,062 |
| 8 | February 11, 2020 18:00 | February 11, 2020 22:45 | 4h 45m | 1,518 | 986 |
| 9 | July 26, 2020 23:30 | July 27, 2020 04:00 | 4h 30m | 1,388 | 5,747 |
| 10 | October 19, 2020 22:15 | October 20, 2020 06:00 | 7h 45m | 1,356 | 2,443 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 69 reached 100+ customers, 17 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 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 Progress - (NC) | 2020 | 5.2 hrs | 1.81 | 2.3 hrs | 1.37 |
| Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC | 2020 | 11.2 hrs | 1.71 | 3.1 hrs | 1.18 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2020 | 5.2 hrs | 1.38 | 86 min | 0.94 |
| 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 91% of North Carolina's customers in 2020; 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, 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/rutherford-county