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2024 Rowan County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Rowan County, NC went without power for an average of 40.0 hours, a total of 678K customer-hours (North Carolina average 66.1 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 238th 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 Rowan 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 13:15 | September 30, 2024 01:00 | 3d 11h | 13,915 | 254K |
| 2 | January 9, 2024 14:15 | January 12, 2024 02:15 | 2d 12h | 11,485 | 95K |
| 3 | August 8, 2024 07:15 | August 10, 2024 00:15 | 1d 17h | 8,715 | 97K |
| 4 | December 17, 2024 13:00 | December 17, 2024 21:00 | 8h | 8,639 | 2,437 |
| 5 | November 20, 2024 07:45 | November 20, 2024 23:45 | 16h | 8,390 | 2,154 |
| 6 | August 30, 2024 12:00 | August 31, 2024 17:15 | 1d 5h | 8,342 | 2,413 |
| 7 | September 16, 2024 18:30 | September 18, 2024 06:15 | 1d 11h | 5,624 | 13K |
| 8 | July 18, 2024 17:15 | July 19, 2024 22:45 | 1d 5h | 4,481 | 21K |
| 9 | April 3, 2024 11:45 | April 4, 2024 01:45 | 14h | 2,609 | 6,687 |
| 10 | January 20, 2024 14:30 | January 20, 2024 23:30 | 9h | 2,608 | 1,103 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 106 reached 100+ customers, 32 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 Rowan 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 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/rowan-county