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2022 Cabarrus County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Cabarrus County, NC went without power for an average of 24.2 hours, a total of 877K customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 262nd of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cabarrus County, 2022
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 15, 2022 16:45 | June 21, 2022 11:00 | 5d 18h | 26,906 | 249K |
| 2 | December 23, 2022 07:45 | December 28, 2022 11:45 | 5d 4h | 19,208 | 190K |
| 3 | March 11, 2022 13:15 | March 14, 2022 10:45 | 2d 21h | 17,072 | 66K |
| 4 | September 30, 2022 12:00 | October 3, 2022 11:00 | 2d 23h | 4,590 | 80K |
| 5 | November 15, 2022 20:30 | November 16, 2022 12:00 | 15h 30m | 4,466 | 14K |
| 6 | February 8, 2022 16:45 | February 9, 2022 01:45 | 9h | 4,053 | 1,057 |
| 7 | January 1, 2022 00:00 | January 5, 2022 09:45 | 4d 9h | 3,320 | 21K |
| 8 | November 18, 2022 14:30 | November 19, 2022 06:15 | 15h 45m | 2,889 | 760 |
| 9 | July 13, 2022 14:15 | July 14, 2022 19:30 | 1d 5h | 2,354 | 9,380 |
| 10 | March 3, 2022 12:30 | March 3, 2022 20:15 | 7h 45m | 2,350 | 638 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 124 reached 100+ customers, 32 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Cabarrus County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 | 2022 | 7.1 hrs | 1.93 | 3.1 hrs | 1.35 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2022 | 4.9 hrs | 1.87 | 2.2 hrs | 1.37 |
| Union Electric Membership Corp - (NC) | 2022 | 2.8 hrs | 1.39 | 59 min | 0.75 |
| City of Concord - (NC) | 2022 | 3.1 hrs | 1.69 | 90 min | 1.41 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 36,290 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. Cabarrus County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cabarrus County, NC annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/north-carolina/cabarrus-county