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2021 Gaston County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Gaston County, NC went without power for an average of 3.7 hours, a total of 175K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.3 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1616th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Gaston County, 2021
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 6, 2021 22:00 | June 7, 2021 10:45 | 12h 45m | 3,845 | 8,153 |
| 2 | June 4, 2021 02:45 | June 5, 2021 03:15 | 1d | 3,511 | 11K |
| 3 | February 7, 2021 05:15 | February 8, 2021 02:45 | 21h 30m | 2,285 | 8,063 |
| 4 | March 24, 2021 12:45 | March 25, 2021 00:15 | 11h 30m | 2,209 | 4,711 |
| 5 | December 19, 2021 09:45 | December 19, 2021 20:15 | 10h 30m | 1,846 | 5,185 |
| 6 | June 2, 2021 19:30 | June 3, 2021 09:45 | 14h 15m | 1,826 | 570 |
| 7 | September 14, 2021 19:00 | September 15, 2021 03:00 | 8h | 1,775 | 1,432 |
| 8 | December 12, 2021 13:15 | December 12, 2021 22:15 | 9h | 1,775 | 6,009 |
| 9 | December 13, 2021 11:45 | December 14, 2021 00:00 | 12h 15m | 1,770 | 485 |
| 10 | July 13, 2021 10:15 | July 13, 2021 23:45 | 13h 30m | 1,749 | 5,845 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 95 reached 100+ customers, 21 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 Gaston County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 3.5 hrs | 1.20 | 2.5 hrs | 1.10 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2021 | 2.1 hrs | 1.04 | 84 min | 0.90 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2021 | 1.7 hrs | 0.85 | 63 min | 0.61 |
| York Electric Coop Inc | 2021 | 76 min | 0.75 | 67 min | 0.66 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Kings Mountain - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Cherryville - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Gastonia - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Dallas - (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 92% of North Carolina's customers in 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 47,215 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. Gaston County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Gaston County, NC annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/north-carolina/gaston-county