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2022 Lincoln County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Lincoln County, NC went without power for an average of 8.7 hours, a total of 222K customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 57th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 837th 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 Lincoln 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 11:45 | December 25, 2022 20:00 | 2d 8h | 4,805 | 32K |
| 2 | January 3, 2022 08:15 | January 5, 2022 01:45 | 1d 17h | 3,342 | 50K |
| 3 | June 9, 2022 12:30 | June 9, 2022 23:00 | 10h 30m | 2,788 | 1,201 |
| 4 | July 26, 2022 17:15 | July 26, 2022 20:30 | 3h 15m | 2,246 | 4,480 |
| 5 | June 5, 2022 17:30 | June 5, 2022 21:15 | 3h 45m | 1,630 | 5,208 |
| 6 | December 20, 2022 14:00 | December 20, 2022 18:30 | 4h 30m | 1,489 | 394 |
| 7 | November 16, 2022 19:45 | November 16, 2022 22:15 | 2h 30m | 1,483 | 1,450 |
| 8 | August 6, 2022 19:30 | August 7, 2022 04:30 | 9h | 1,445 | 4,130 |
| 9 | June 16, 2022 12:15 | June 17, 2022 10:15 | 22h | 1,441 | 7,008 |
| 10 | December 20, 2022 19:15 | December 21, 2022 07:15 | 12h | 1,408 | 7,912 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 76 reached 100+ customers, 21 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 Lincoln 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 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lincolnton - (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 ÷ 25,563 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. Lincoln County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county