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2025 Gaston County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Gaston County, NC went without power for an average of 6.1 hours, a total of 289K customer-hours (North Carolina average 9.8 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1272nd 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 Gaston 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 | April 3, 2025 18:15 | April 3, 2025 23:45 | 5h 30m | 5,954 | 14K |
| 2 | August 1, 2025 11:15 | August 3, 2025 01:00 | 1d 13h | 4,163 | 34K |
| 3 | September 28, 2025 14:30 | September 28, 2025 15:30 | 1h | 2,783 | 2,783 |
| 4 | February 27, 2025 07:15 | February 28, 2025 03:00 | 19h 45m | 2,756 | 4,466 |
| 5 | April 1, 2025 01:00 | April 1, 2025 15:00 | 14h | 2,495 | 10K |
| 6 | June 25, 2025 21:00 | June 27, 2025 07:45 | 1d 10h | 2,340 | 22K |
| 7 | August 11, 2025 11:15 | August 12, 2025 05:30 | 18h 15m | 2,068 | 6,593 |
| 8 | October 20, 2025 00:45 | October 20, 2025 06:15 | 5h 30m | 1,972 | 11K |
| 9 | June 13, 2025 11:45 | June 14, 2025 12:15 | 1d | 1,833 | 2,521 |
| 10 | July 30, 2025 10:45 | July 31, 2025 21:45 | 1d 11h | 1,831 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 119 reached 100+ customers, 32 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 Gaston 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 |
| York Electric Coop Inc | 2024 | 16.3 hrs | 2.20 | 89 min | 1.69 |
| City of Gastonia - (NC) | 2024 | 23.0 hrs | 3.39 | 1.6 hrs | 1.02 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Kings Mountain - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Cherryville - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Dallas - (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 ÷ 47,215 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. Gaston County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Gaston 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/gaston-county