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2022 Polk County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Polk County, NC went without power for an average of 12.0 hours, a total of 63K customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 578th 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 Polk 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 | February 14, 2022 22:00 | February 15, 2022 00:15 | 2h 15m | 3,132 | 1,704 |
| 2 | October 10, 2022 14:00 | October 10, 2022 20:00 | 6h | 2,849 | 2,935 |
| 3 | October 31, 2022 05:00 | October 31, 2022 05:45 | 45m | 1,681 | 1,260 |
| 4 | June 27, 2022 11:15 | June 27, 2022 18:00 | 6h 45m | 1,016 | 6,484 |
| 5 | August 3, 2022 08:45 | August 3, 2022 10:45 | 2h | 979 | 1,469 |
| 6 | April 6, 2022 15:30 | April 6, 2022 16:15 | 45m | 975 | 731 |
| 7 | August 9, 2022 10:30 | August 9, 2022 19:30 | 9h | 893 | 690 |
| 8 | July 12, 2022 17:15 | July 12, 2022 18:45 | 1h 30m | 891 | 448 |
| 9 | July 30, 2022 23:45 | July 31, 2022 16:45 | 17h | 739 | 1,931 |
| 10 | December 24, 2022 10:30 | December 25, 2022 04:15 | 17h 45m | 727 | 2,281 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 42 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Polk 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 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Broad River Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,215 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. Polk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk 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/polk-county