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2022 McDowell County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in McDowell County, NC went without power for an average of 7.7 hours, a total of 95K customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 953rd 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 McDowell 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 | August 10, 2022 16:45 | August 10, 2022 22:15 | 5h 30m | 2,377 | 1,845 |
| 2 | July 11, 2022 09:15 | July 11, 2022 19:45 | 10h 30m | 2,238 | 2,025 |
| 3 | July 29, 2022 17:45 | July 30, 2022 08:15 | 14h 30m | 2,238 | 2,536 |
| 4 | September 7, 2022 12:30 | September 7, 2022 13:45 | 1h 15m | 2,232 | 1,146 |
| 5 | September 29, 2022 13:30 | September 29, 2022 20:15 | 6h 45m | 2,232 | 2,635 |
| 6 | August 6, 2022 14:00 | August 6, 2022 23:45 | 9h 45m | 1,862 | 1,579 |
| 7 | July 5, 2022 23:15 | July 6, 2022 09:15 | 10h | 1,542 | 1,861 |
| 8 | December 23, 2022 10:30 | December 24, 2022 21:15 | 1d 10h | 1,229 | 8,887 |
| 9 | November 3, 2022 17:45 | November 3, 2022 19:45 | 2h | 1,150 | 865 |
| 10 | March 16, 2022 13:30 | March 16, 2022 13:45 | 15m | 1,149 | 287 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 77 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 McDowell 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 Progress - (NC) | 2022 | 9.8 hrs | 2.35 | 2.2 hrs | 1.26 |
| 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 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| French Broad Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 12,442 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. McDowell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McDowell 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/mcdowell-county