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2022 Catawba County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Catawba County, NC went without power for an average of 33.6 hours, a total of 274K customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 142nd 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 Catawba 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 | December 23, 2022 11:30 | December 26, 2022 11:45 | 3d | 7,477 | 79K |
| 2 | July 5, 2022 14:15 | July 6, 2022 10:45 | 20h 30m | 4,485 | 7,941 |
| 3 | August 10, 2022 12:30 | August 11, 2022 07:15 | 18h 45m | 3,209 | 4,029 |
| 4 | July 3, 2022 09:45 | July 4, 2022 16:15 | 1d 6h | 3,037 | 34K |
| 5 | March 23, 2022 23:15 | March 24, 2022 03:45 | 4h 30m | 2,384 | 2,983 |
| 6 | January 3, 2022 08:45 | January 5, 2022 12:00 | 2d 3h | 1,967 | 14K |
| 7 | August 23, 2022 10:45 | August 24, 2022 02:15 | 15h 30m | 1,820 | 9,842 |
| 8 | April 26, 2022 17:30 | April 26, 2022 23:00 | 5h 30m | 1,665 | 3,154 |
| 9 | June 1, 2022 10:00 | June 2, 2022 06:45 | 20h 45m | 1,616 | 1,201 |
| 10 | September 6, 2022 03:00 | September 6, 2022 22:45 | 19h 45m | 1,594 | 2,993 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 88 reached 100+ customers, 26 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 Catawba 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 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2022 | 2.0 hrs | 1.05 | 1.6 hrs | 0.88 |
| City of Newton - (NC) | 2018 | 3.0 hrs | 2.09 | 29 min | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Maiden - (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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 8,165 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. Catawba County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Catawba 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/catawba-county