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2022 Rowan County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Rowan County, NC went without power for an average of 31.6 hours, a total of 535K customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 162nd 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 Rowan 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 | June 16, 2022 18:45 | July 1, 2022 04:15 | 14d 9h | 6,425 | 103K |
| 2 | January 3, 2022 07:30 | January 6, 2022 00:45 | 2d 17h | 5,056 | 84K |
| 3 | December 23, 2022 10:45 | December 26, 2022 12:00 | 3d 1h | 5,014 | 72K |
| 4 | May 21, 2022 17:45 | May 22, 2022 04:45 | 11h | 4,697 | 7,187 |
| 5 | September 30, 2022 16:45 | October 3, 2022 03:45 | 2d 11h | 3,705 | 105K |
| 6 | March 12, 2022 11:30 | March 13, 2022 20:30 | 1d 9h | 2,386 | 9,247 |
| 7 | June 14, 2022 22:45 | June 15, 2022 00:45 | 2h | 2,021 | 4,040 |
| 8 | June 6, 2022 08:45 | June 6, 2022 10:30 | 1h 45m | 1,825 | 917 |
| 9 | April 26, 2022 13:00 | April 27, 2022 01:00 | 12h | 1,702 | 7,899 |
| 10 | August 6, 2022 18:00 | August 7, 2022 05:15 | 11h 15m | 1,625 | 1,575 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 103 reached 100+ customers, 23 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 Rowan 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 |
| Union Electric Membership Corp - (NC) | 2022 | 2.8 hrs | 1.39 | 59 min | 0.75 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Landis - (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 ÷ 16,951 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. Rowan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rowan 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/rowan-county