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2021 Rowan County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Rowan County, NC went without power for an average of 12.0 hours, a total of 203K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.3 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 682nd 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 Rowan 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 | July 11, 2021 18:15 | July 12, 2021 10:45 | 16h 30m | 5,235 | 12K |
| 2 | August 13, 2021 22:45 | August 15, 2021 01:45 | 1d 3h | 2,999 | 16K |
| 3 | January 13, 2021 12:45 | January 13, 2021 13:45 | 1h | 2,940 | 2,940 |
| 4 | November 8, 2021 03:30 | November 8, 2021 03:45 | 15m | 2,580 | 645 |
| 5 | June 16, 2021 12:45 | June 17, 2021 01:30 | 12h 45m | 2,484 | 3,111 |
| 6 | July 12, 2021 12:00 | July 12, 2021 20:15 | 8h 15m | 2,469 | 3,256 |
| 7 | April 3, 2021 06:30 | April 3, 2021 17:15 | 10h 45m | 2,267 | 8,075 |
| 8 | June 3, 2021 09:45 | June 3, 2021 19:00 | 9h 15m | 2,035 | 2,638 |
| 9 | February 19, 2021 14:15 | February 20, 2021 00:15 | 10h | 2,007 | 7,299 |
| 10 | January 12, 2021 12:45 | January 13, 2021 01:45 | 13h | 1,817 | 945 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 111 reached 100+ customers, 29 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 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 |
| Union Electric Membership Corp - (NC) | 2021 | 80 min | 0.94 | 62 min | 0.74 |
| 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 92% of North Carolina's customers in 2021; 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, 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/rowan-county