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2025 Lincoln County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Lincoln County, NC went without power for an average of 7.1 hours, a total of 182K customer-hours (North Carolina average 9.8 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1127th 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 Lincoln 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 | June 30, 2025 01:30 | June 30, 2025 13:30 | 12h | 6,555 | 45K |
| 2 | June 22, 2025 17:45 | June 23, 2025 07:45 | 14h | 3,303 | 15K |
| 3 | May 8, 2025 22:45 | May 10, 2025 00:15 | 1d 1h | 3,252 | 20K |
| 4 | September 28, 2025 17:15 | September 29, 2025 04:30 | 11h 15m | 1,855 | 17K |
| 5 | July 9, 2025 23:00 | July 11, 2025 00:30 | 1d 1h | 1,752 | 11K |
| 6 | September 24, 2025 14:30 | September 24, 2025 21:15 | 6h 45m | 1,647 | 3,297 |
| 7 | March 26, 2025 15:30 | March 26, 2025 19:15 | 3h 45m | 1,620 | 1,407 |
| 8 | September 8, 2025 11:15 | September 9, 2025 00:30 | 13h 15m | 1,491 | 2,164 |
| 9 | May 17, 2025 16:30 | May 17, 2025 21:30 | 5h | 1,412 | 1,402 |
| 10 | August 12, 2025 14:00 | August 12, 2025 22:00 | 8h | 1,389 | 2,889 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 67 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Lincoln 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 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lincolnton - (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 ÷ 25,563 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. Lincoln County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county