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2024 Cabarrus County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Cabarrus County, NC went without power for an average of 26.2 hours, a total of 951K customer-hours (North Carolina average 66.1 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 369th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cabarrus County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 26, 2024 18:15 | September 30, 2024 05:45 | 3d 11h | 20,431 | 198K |
| 2 | March 19, 2024 11:45 | March 20, 2024 11:00 | 23h 15m | 13,181 | 3,612 |
| 3 | November 27, 2024 23:00 | December 2, 2024 12:00 | 4d 13h | 7,976 | 23K |
| 4 | January 10, 2024 21:00 | January 12, 2024 13:00 | 1d 16h | 7,846 | 113K |
| 5 | April 12, 2024 00:00 | April 16, 2024 00:15 | 4d | 6,020 | 59K |
| 6 | August 7, 2024 12:15 | August 10, 2024 02:15 | 2d 14h | 4,849 | 43K |
| 7 | May 8, 2024 20:00 | May 10, 2024 11:00 | 1d 15h | 4,760 | 59K |
| 8 | February 2, 2024 12:45 | February 2, 2024 20:15 | 7h 30m | 4,409 | 3,383 |
| 9 | December 20, 2024 13:30 | December 23, 2024 23:45 | 3d 10h | 3,561 | 8,254 |
| 10 | August 3, 2024 00:15 | August 5, 2024 11:15 | 2d 11h | 3,458 | 21K |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 106 reached 100+ customers, 35 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 Cabarrus County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 | 2024 | 78.6 hrs | 2.50 | 2.9 hrs | 1.26 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2024 | 7.1 hrs | 2.13 | 2.1 hrs | 1.33 |
| Union Electric Membership Corp - (NC) | 2024 | 6.0 hrs | 1.43 | 53 min | 0.71 |
| City of Concord - (NC) | 2024 | 2.9 hrs | 1.91 | 2.9 hrs | 1.91 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 36,290 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. Cabarrus County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cabarrus County, NC annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/north-carolina/cabarrus-county