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2022 Cleveland County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Cleveland County, NC went without power for an average of 5.3 hours, a total of 100K customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 71st worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1346th 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 Cleveland 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 | November 15, 2022 20:30 | November 15, 2022 23:30 | 3h | 4,301 | 2,153 |
| 2 | June 9, 2022 12:45 | June 9, 2022 14:15 | 1h 30m | 3,420 | 880 |
| 3 | January 3, 2022 09:15 | January 4, 2022 23:30 | 1d 14h | 2,898 | 17K |
| 4 | December 23, 2022 09:45 | December 25, 2022 07:15 | 1d 21h | 2,345 | 19K |
| 5 | February 8, 2022 02:45 | February 8, 2022 05:00 | 2h 15m | 1,420 | 714 |
| 6 | July 30, 2022 21:30 | July 31, 2022 16:15 | 18h 45m | 1,193 | 3,244 |
| 7 | July 3, 2022 16:15 | July 3, 2022 19:00 | 2h 45m | 1,131 | 1,893 |
| 8 | August 4, 2022 23:15 | August 6, 2022 03:00 | 1d 3h | 1,068 | 6,104 |
| 9 | June 8, 2022 19:30 | June 8, 2022 22:45 | 3h 15m | 1,054 | 1,228 |
| 10 | November 1, 2022 16:45 | November 1, 2022 21:45 | 5h | 959 | 1,199 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 61 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Cleveland 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 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2022 | 2.0 hrs | 1.05 | 1.6 hrs | 0.88 |
| City of Shelby - (NC) | 2018 | 3.1 hrs | 1.21 | 54 min | 0.70 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Broad River Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Kings Mountain - (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 ÷ 18,853 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. Cleveland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cleveland 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/cleveland-county