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2024 Lincoln County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Lincoln County, NC went without power for an average of 53.7 hours, a total of 1.4M customer-hours (North Carolina average 66.1 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 187th 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 Lincoln 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 02:45 | October 6, 2024 00:15 | 9d 21h | 23,646 | 1.2M |
| 2 | August 8, 2024 08:00 | August 10, 2024 05:30 | 1d 21h | 3,425 | 28K |
| 3 | May 8, 2024 19:00 | May 10, 2024 06:15 | 1d 11h | 3,130 | 57K |
| 4 | January 19, 2024 15:30 | January 20, 2024 04:45 | 13h 15m | 2,971 | 6,595 |
| 5 | October 28, 2024 13:00 | October 28, 2024 21:00 | 8h | 2,889 | 3,102 |
| 6 | March 26, 2024 14:45 | March 26, 2024 15:15 | 30m | 2,405 | 823 |
| 7 | January 10, 2024 03:15 | January 11, 2024 01:00 | 21h 45m | 2,222 | 8,284 |
| 8 | May 4, 2024 04:30 | May 4, 2024 06:45 | 2h 15m | 2,091 | 2,968 |
| 9 | July 22, 2024 13:45 | July 22, 2024 18:45 | 5h | 1,600 | 3,152 |
| 10 | August 16, 2024 21:45 | August 18, 2024 00:00 | 1d 2h | 1,564 | 2,277 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 49 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 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 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/lincoln-county