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2021 Rutherford County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Rutherford County, NC went without power for an average of 24.1 hours, a total of 171K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.3 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 349th 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 Rutherford 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 | August 17, 2021 12:45 | August 19, 2021 16:30 | 2d 3h | 11,345 | 28K |
| 2 | April 11, 2021 12:00 | April 11, 2021 23:00 | 11h | 3,363 | 6,234 |
| 3 | October 27, 2021 21:15 | October 27, 2021 23:30 | 2h 15m | 2,475 | 623 |
| 4 | August 16, 2021 21:00 | August 17, 2021 10:00 | 13h | 1,705 | 9,731 |
| 5 | October 7, 2021 11:00 | October 8, 2021 03:00 | 16h | 1,690 | 4,088 |
| 6 | October 26, 2021 12:45 | October 27, 2021 02:45 | 14h | 1,670 | 2,557 |
| 7 | October 8, 2021 05:15 | October 8, 2021 07:00 | 1h 45m | 1,668 | 2,789 |
| 8 | July 15, 2021 10:15 | July 15, 2021 21:00 | 10h 45m | 1,665 | 12K |
| 9 | February 20, 2021 01:00 | February 20, 2021 15:45 | 14h 45m | 1,634 | 16K |
| 10 | July 30, 2021 05:15 | July 30, 2021 17:15 | 12h | 1,625 | 9,408 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 65 reached 100+ customers, 21 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 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 Progress - (NC) | 2021 | 3.1 hrs | 1.39 | 2.4 hrs | 1.34 |
| Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC | 2021 | 3.5 hrs | 1.20 | 2.5 hrs | 1.10 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2021 | 1.7 hrs | 0.85 | 63 min | 0.61 |
| 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 92% of North Carolina's customers in 2021; 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, 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/rutherford-county