County annual report · FIPS 37161
2023 Rutherford County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Rutherford County, NC went without power for an average of 33.2 hours, a total of 235K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.6 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 201st 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 Rutherford 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 | July 29, 2023 22:45 | July 31, 2023 06:45 | 1d 8h | 4,222 | 32K |
| 2 | August 7, 2023 13:45 | August 9, 2023 06:45 | 1d 17h | 3,837 | 47K |
| 3 | April 21, 2023 14:00 | April 21, 2023 23:15 | 9h 15m | 3,714 | 6,535 |
| 4 | March 23, 2023 19:45 | March 23, 2023 22:15 | 2h 30m | 3,711 | 1,858 |
| 5 | March 13, 2023 03:45 | March 13, 2023 10:15 | 6h 30m | 2,890 | 12K |
| 6 | May 16, 2023 21:45 | May 17, 2023 00:15 | 2h 30m | 2,461 | 620 |
| 7 | June 6, 2023 02:15 | June 6, 2023 04:30 | 2h 15m | 2,210 | 2,131 |
| 8 | May 15, 2023 16:15 | May 15, 2023 19:15 | 3h | 2,049 | 1,027 |
| 9 | December 10, 2023 07:30 | December 10, 2023 11:15 | 3h 45m | 1,869 | 5,141 |
| 10 | July 3, 2023 19:30 | July 4, 2023 22:15 | 1d 2h | 1,800 | 7,689 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 70 reached 100+ customers, 26 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 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 Progress - (NC) | 2023 | 3.7 hrs | 1.47 | 2.4 hrs | 1.22 |
| Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC | 2023 | 5.0 hrs | 1.68 | 3.3 hrs | 1.52 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2023 | 2.4 hrs | 1.09 | 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 n/a of North Carolina's customers in 2023; 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, 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/rutherford-county