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2025 Cabarrus County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Cabarrus County, NC went without power for an average of 8.7 hours, a total of 316K customer-hours (North Carolina average 9.8 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 927th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cabarrus County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 18, 2025 21:30 | January 20, 2025 00:45 | 1d 3h | 12,549 | 33K |
| 2 | March 28, 2025 02:15 | March 28, 2025 05:15 | 3h | 4,821 | 4,281 |
| 3 | July 31, 2025 20:45 | August 1, 2025 11:00 | 14h 15m | 4,733 | 7,646 |
| 4 | August 29, 2025 11:45 | September 2, 2025 10:45 | 3d 23h | 3,957 | 12K |
| 5 | January 25, 2025 13:45 | January 27, 2025 12:00 | 1d 22h | 3,833 | 4,574 |
| 6 | August 15, 2025 11:00 | August 20, 2025 11:00 | 5d | 2,646 | 6,628 |
| 7 | November 3, 2025 13:45 | November 3, 2025 22:45 | 9h | 2,226 | 999 |
| 8 | June 4, 2025 11:45 | June 8, 2025 03:30 | 3d 15h | 2,032 | 5,482 |
| 9 | April 21, 2025 12:00 | April 21, 2025 15:00 | 3h | 1,855 | 3,711 |
| 10 | February 6, 2025 22:00 | February 10, 2025 12:15 | 3d 14h | 1,767 | 2,206 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 100 reached 100+ customers, 27 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 Cabarrus County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/north-carolina/cabarrus-county