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2022 Rutherford County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Rutherford County, NC went without power for an average of 21.9 hours, a total of 155K customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 293rd 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 Rutherford 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 24, 2022 08:00 | December 24, 2022 21:45 | 13h 45m | 3,377 | 14K |
| 2 | March 12, 2022 16:45 | March 13, 2022 19:30 | 1d 2h | 3,063 | 22K |
| 3 | April 4, 2022 03:15 | April 4, 2022 08:45 | 5h 30m | 2,480 | 10K |
| 4 | November 27, 2022 18:45 | November 27, 2022 22:45 | 4h | 2,478 | 2,171 |
| 5 | November 2, 2022 23:45 | November 3, 2022 08:00 | 8h 15m | 2,435 | 8,175 |
| 6 | January 12, 2022 21:45 | January 13, 2022 01:00 | 3h 15m | 1,867 | 885 |
| 7 | August 28, 2022 23:30 | August 29, 2022 18:15 | 18h 45m | 1,706 | 6,860 |
| 8 | September 3, 2022 04:15 | September 3, 2022 06:45 | 2h 30m | 1,649 | 4,120 |
| 9 | September 10, 2022 15:15 | September 11, 2022 07:00 | 15h 45m | 1,648 | 13K |
| 10 | March 30, 2022 19:45 | March 30, 2022 22:30 | 2h 45m | 1,558 | 1,382 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 83 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 Rutherford 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Broad River Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Bostic - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Forest City | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 7,084 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. Rutherford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rutherford 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/rutherford-county