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2025 Catawba County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Catawba County, NC went without power for an average of 21.5 hours, a total of 176K customer-hours (North Carolina average 9.8 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 308th 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 Catawba 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 | July 8, 2025 18:45 | July 12, 2025 06:00 | 3d 11h | 8,638 | 17K |
| 2 | June 30, 2025 12:30 | July 1, 2025 09:00 | 20h 30m | 3,238 | 3,420 |
| 3 | March 13, 2025 14:15 | March 14, 2025 01:15 | 11h | 3,173 | 3,992 |
| 4 | October 20, 2025 13:00 | October 20, 2025 14:45 | 1h 45m | 2,679 | 2,680 |
| 5 | July 29, 2025 08:30 | July 29, 2025 10:30 | 2h | 2,247 | 943 |
| 6 | June 19, 2025 11:15 | June 20, 2025 21:00 | 1d 9h | 2,176 | 12K |
| 7 | August 3, 2025 22:15 | August 4, 2025 07:00 | 8h 45m | 1,781 | 5,290 |
| 8 | September 24, 2025 07:15 | September 25, 2025 21:15 | 1d 14h | 1,740 | 2,433 |
| 9 | March 17, 2025 04:45 | March 17, 2025 16:00 | 11h 15m | 1,730 | 5,372 |
| 10 | July 16, 2025 11:45 | July 17, 2025 00:45 | 13h | 1,468 | 4,032 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 86 reached 100+ customers, 24 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 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 |
| 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 2025; 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, 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/catawba-county