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2022 Gaston County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Gaston County, NC went without power for an average of 10.5 hours, a total of 498K customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 684th 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 Gaston 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 10:15 | December 26, 2022 07:45 | 2d 21h | 7,713 | 75K |
| 2 | January 3, 2022 06:30 | January 5, 2022 04:30 | 1d 22h | 7,425 | 53K |
| 3 | June 17, 2022 10:45 | June 19, 2022 04:45 | 1d 18h | 6,002 | 83K |
| 4 | August 18, 2022 15:00 | August 18, 2022 22:00 | 7h | 4,512 | 1,893 |
| 5 | July 29, 2022 03:15 | July 30, 2022 00:45 | 21h 30m | 3,648 | 6,748 |
| 6 | September 30, 2022 13:15 | October 2, 2022 21:15 | 2d 8h | 3,517 | 29K |
| 7 | April 22, 2022 14:45 | April 22, 2022 18:15 | 3h 30m | 3,074 | 953 |
| 8 | November 8, 2022 12:45 | November 8, 2022 20:00 | 7h 15m | 2,875 | 5,765 |
| 9 | March 12, 2022 12:30 | March 13, 2022 12:45 | 1d | 2,810 | 14K |
| 10 | April 8, 2022 13:00 | April 9, 2022 06:30 | 17h 30m | 2,667 | 1,668 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 134 reached 100+ customers, 43 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 Gaston 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 |
| York Electric Coop Inc | 2022 | 2.3 hrs | 1.09 | 1.9 hrs | 0.88 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Kings Mountain - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Cherryville - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Gastonia - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Dallas - (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 ÷ 47,215 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. Gaston County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Gaston 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/gaston-county