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2023 Lincoln County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Lincoln County, NC went without power for an average of 9.9 hours, a total of 253K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.6 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 849th 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 Lincoln 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 | November 28, 2023 18:00 | November 29, 2023 07:30 | 13h 30m | 10,486 | 54K |
| 2 | October 8, 2023 13:15 | October 8, 2023 18:45 | 5h 30m | 6,393 | 18K |
| 3 | July 14, 2023 05:15 | July 14, 2023 13:30 | 8h 15m | 6,381 | 9,588 |
| 4 | August 7, 2023 19:45 | August 9, 2023 21:15 | 2d 1h | 4,107 | 53K |
| 5 | August 6, 2023 19:15 | August 7, 2023 09:15 | 14h | 2,476 | 6,043 |
| 6 | August 27, 2023 02:00 | August 28, 2023 00:15 | 22h 15m | 2,217 | 21K |
| 7 | April 9, 2023 12:45 | April 9, 2023 18:45 | 6h | 1,463 | 7,185 |
| 8 | June 3, 2023 22:45 | June 4, 2023 16:15 | 17h 30m | 1,400 | 2,057 |
| 9 | September 12, 2023 10:00 | September 12, 2023 14:15 | 4h 15m | 1,349 | 2,203 |
| 10 | April 28, 2023 21:00 | April 29, 2023 01:15 | 4h 15m | 1,291 | 3,549 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 55 reached 100+ customers, 17 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Lincoln 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 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lincolnton - (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 ÷ 25,563 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. Lincoln County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county