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2025 Rutherford County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Rutherford County, NC went without power for an average of 21.7 hours, a total of 154K customer-hours (North Carolina average 9.8 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 302nd 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 Rutherford 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 | November 20, 2025 06:45 | November 20, 2025 10:15 | 3h 30m | 4,458 | 7,576 |
| 2 | June 12, 2025 12:15 | June 13, 2025 01:45 | 13h 30m | 3,966 | 15K |
| 3 | June 18, 2025 01:45 | June 18, 2025 21:45 | 20h | 3,934 | 19K |
| 4 | July 28, 2025 13:00 | July 28, 2025 23:45 | 10h 45m | 3,119 | 6,358 |
| 5 | September 8, 2025 16:45 | September 8, 2025 21:15 | 4h 30m | 2,842 | 3,568 |
| 6 | April 15, 2025 13:30 | April 16, 2025 01:30 | 12h | 1,824 | 1,295 |
| 7 | June 25, 2025 21:00 | June 26, 2025 15:30 | 18h 30m | 1,736 | 6,554 |
| 8 | March 19, 2025 21:00 | March 19, 2025 23:00 | 2h | 1,708 | 1,289 |
| 9 | March 9, 2025 05:15 | March 9, 2025 12:15 | 7h | 1,475 | 755 |
| 10 | August 15, 2025 18:45 | August 16, 2025 01:15 | 6h 30m | 1,463 | 3,528 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 79 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 Rutherford 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 Progress - (NC) | 2024 | 17.2 hrs | 1.70 | 2.2 hrs | 1.22 |
| Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC | 2024 | 78.6 hrs | 2.50 | 2.9 hrs | 1.26 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2024 | 92.2 hrs | 2.48 | 5.8 hrs | 1.11 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Broad River Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Bostic - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Forest City | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 7,084 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. Rutherford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rutherford 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/rutherford-county