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2024 Rutherford County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Rutherford County, NC went without power for an average of 826.0 hours, a total of 5.9M customer-hours (North Carolina average 66.1 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 10th 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 Rutherford 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 08:30 | November 14, 2024 23:00 | 49d 14h | 51,166 | 5.7M |
| 2 | April 11, 2024 21:45 | April 13, 2024 21:45 | 2d | 4,556 | 32K |
| 3 | February 23, 2024 17:00 | February 24, 2024 00:00 | 7h | 3,860 | 7,213 |
| 4 | November 15, 2024 00:00 | December 12, 2024 04:15 | 27d 4h | 2,233 | 25K |
| 5 | May 28, 2024 02:45 | May 28, 2024 05:30 | 2h 45m | 2,212 | 4,150 |
| 6 | May 8, 2024 18:45 | May 11, 2024 19:00 | 3d | 2,183 | 26K |
| 7 | January 9, 2024 14:00 | January 10, 2024 23:45 | 1d 9h | 1,738 | 8,370 |
| 8 | August 24, 2024 05:00 | August 24, 2024 14:30 | 9h 30m | 1,104 | 5,477 |
| 9 | April 18, 2024 13:45 | April 18, 2024 21:00 | 7h 15m | 950 | 752 |
| 10 | March 10, 2024 11:45 | March 11, 2024 21:15 | 1d 9h | 909 | 4,513 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 68 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Rutherford 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 Progress - (NC) | 2024 | 17.2 hrs | 1.70 | 2.2 hrs | 1.22 |
| Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC | 2024 | 78.6 hrs | 2.50 | 2.9 hrs | 1.26 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2024 | 92.2 hrs | 2.48 | 5.8 hrs | 1.11 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/rutherford-county