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2023 Catawba County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Catawba County, NC went without power for an average of 72.5 hours, a total of 592K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.6 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 44th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Catawba County, 2023
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 7, 2023 09:15 | August 10, 2023 05:45 | 2d 20h | 17,631 | 363K |
| 2 | August 13, 2023 15:00 | August 14, 2023 04:15 | 13h 15m | 17,282 | 27K |
| 3 | December 19, 2023 00:45 | December 19, 2023 22:15 | 21h 30m | 4,628 | 34K |
| 4 | November 22, 2023 00:15 | November 22, 2023 11:45 | 11h 30m | 4,494 | 7,083 |
| 5 | April 30, 2023 20:45 | May 1, 2023 23:30 | 1d 2h | 2,800 | 2,932 |
| 6 | April 1, 2023 11:00 | April 2, 2023 21:15 | 1d 10h | 2,689 | 11K |
| 7 | April 5, 2023 13:45 | April 5, 2023 19:45 | 6h | 2,486 | 653 |
| 8 | September 7, 2023 12:45 | September 8, 2023 06:15 | 17h 30m | 2,028 | 1,420 |
| 9 | July 19, 2023 05:15 | July 19, 2023 21:00 | 15h 45m | 1,971 | 2,403 |
| 10 | January 9, 2023 14:45 | January 10, 2023 05:30 | 14h 45m | 1,822 | 6,004 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 111 reached 100+ customers, 28 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Catawba County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 5.0 hrs | 1.68 | 3.3 hrs | 1.52 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2023 | 3.7 hrs | 1.64 | 2.2 hrs | 1.37 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2023 | 2.4 hrs | 1.09 | 1.6 hrs | 0.88 |
| City of Newton - (NC) | 2018 | 3.0 hrs | 2.09 | 29 min | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Maiden - (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 n/a of North Carolina's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 8,165 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. Catawba County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Catawba County, NC annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/north-carolina/catawba-county