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2025 Rowan County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Rowan County, NC went without power for an average of 14.5 hours, a total of 246K customer-hours (North Carolina average 9.8 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 527th 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 Rowan 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 | August 26, 2025 13:45 | August 26, 2025 21:15 | 7h 30m | 8,808 | 2,237 |
| 2 | November 22, 2025 18:45 | November 22, 2025 21:45 | 3h | 7,893 | 1,976 |
| 3 | June 21, 2025 07:45 | June 21, 2025 12:45 | 5h | 4,672 | 3,509 |
| 4 | July 31, 2025 21:45 | August 3, 2025 04:45 | 2d 7h | 4,102 | 18K |
| 5 | November 18, 2025 13:45 | November 19, 2025 05:45 | 16h | 2,843 | 1,021 |
| 6 | January 27, 2025 08:15 | January 27, 2025 21:45 | 13h 30m | 2,656 | 4,566 |
| 7 | October 1, 2025 09:15 | October 1, 2025 23:45 | 14h 30m | 2,542 | 9,958 |
| 8 | July 22, 2025 13:30 | July 23, 2025 09:45 | 20h 15m | 2,310 | 7,955 |
| 9 | February 16, 2025 06:30 | February 17, 2025 09:30 | 1d 3h | 2,013 | 12K |
| 10 | October 27, 2025 12:45 | October 28, 2025 06:45 | 18h | 1,972 | 3,146 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 111 reached 100+ customers, 27 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 Rowan 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 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Landis - (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 ÷ 16,951 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. Rowan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rowan 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/rowan-county