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2021 Lincoln County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Lincoln County, NC went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 67K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.3 hours). That ranks 72nd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1999th 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 Lincoln 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 | March 25, 2021 22:30 | March 26, 2021 21:45 | 23h 15m | 2,948 | 16K |
| 2 | December 30, 2021 12:30 | December 30, 2021 14:30 | 2h | 1,937 | 1,734 |
| 3 | March 1, 2021 17:30 | March 2, 2021 00:00 | 6h 30m | 1,285 | 987 |
| 4 | October 15, 2021 07:15 | October 15, 2021 09:15 | 2h | 917 | 1,356 |
| 5 | June 1, 2021 09:15 | June 1, 2021 14:15 | 5h | 861 | 649 |
| 6 | May 29, 2021 08:45 | May 30, 2021 03:45 | 19h | 758 | 2,520 |
| 7 | July 9, 2021 17:45 | July 10, 2021 05:45 | 12h | 746 | 1,628 |
| 8 | November 12, 2021 05:30 | November 12, 2021 19:15 | 13h 45m | 674 | 4,568 |
| 9 | December 27, 2021 19:15 | December 27, 2021 22:45 | 3h 30m | 606 | 606 |
| 10 | March 19, 2021 15:45 | March 19, 2021 20:45 | 5h | 592 | 304 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 45 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 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 |
| 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 92% of North Carolina's customers in 2021; 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, 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/lincoln-county