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2023 Rowan County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Rowan County, NC went without power for an average of 42.0 hours, a total of 711K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.6 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 141st 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 Rowan 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 6, 2023 19:45 | August 10, 2023 08:00 | 3d 12h | 18,454 | 362K |
| 2 | May 22, 2023 14:15 | May 22, 2023 22:30 | 8h 15m | 7,725 | 3,516 |
| 3 | July 29, 2023 23:45 | July 30, 2023 19:45 | 20h | 5,701 | 11K |
| 4 | August 24, 2023 12:00 | August 26, 2023 04:15 | 1d 16h | 5,050 | 37K |
| 5 | June 26, 2023 13:00 | June 28, 2023 04:45 | 1d 15h | 3,944 | 32K |
| 6 | July 15, 2023 18:30 | July 17, 2023 01:15 | 1d 6h | 3,475 | 12K |
| 7 | December 6, 2023 13:15 | December 6, 2023 23:45 | 10h 30m | 3,130 | 4,662 |
| 8 | December 2, 2023 10:45 | December 2, 2023 23:30 | 12h 45m | 3,011 | 7,164 |
| 9 | July 24, 2023 12:15 | July 24, 2023 23:00 | 10h 45m | 2,942 | 18K |
| 10 | July 10, 2023 18:30 | July 11, 2023 01:15 | 6h 45m | 2,834 | 1,460 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 133 reached 100+ customers, 42 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 Rowan 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 |
| Union Electric Membership Corp - (NC) | 2023 | 88 min | 0.89 | 59 min | 0.74 |
| 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 n/a of North Carolina's customers in 2023; 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, 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/rowan-county