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2024 Catawba County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Catawba County, NC went without power for an average of 298.5 hours, a total of 2.4M customer-hours (North Carolina average 66.1 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 22nd 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 Catawba 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 25, 2024 00:30 | October 8, 2024 08:15 | 13d 7h | 28,303 | 2.2M |
| 2 | June 6, 2024 21:30 | June 7, 2024 03:45 | 6h 15m | 5,623 | 5,638 |
| 3 | January 9, 2024 13:00 | January 11, 2024 21:15 | 2d 8h | 5,358 | 54K |
| 4 | May 18, 2024 23:45 | May 19, 2024 13:00 | 13h 15m | 4,576 | 6,778 |
| 5 | August 8, 2024 09:00 | August 10, 2024 06:45 | 1d 21h | 3,839 | 24K |
| 6 | July 16, 2024 12:15 | July 17, 2024 01:00 | 12h 45m | 2,563 | 2,438 |
| 7 | May 4, 2024 11:00 | May 5, 2024 11:00 | 1d | 2,354 | 3,076 |
| 8 | November 22, 2024 12:45 | November 22, 2024 22:45 | 10h | 1,861 | 2,230 |
| 9 | March 6, 2024 05:30 | March 6, 2024 09:45 | 4h 15m | 1,804 | 4,669 |
| 10 | March 11, 2024 03:15 | March 11, 2024 09:00 | 5h 45m | 1,756 | 6,193 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 108 reached 100+ customers, 20 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 Catawba 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 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2024 | 92.2 hrs | 2.48 | 5.8 hrs | 1.11 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/catawba-county