Power outages in Polk County, NC
We don't have a live outage feed for the utilities serving Polk County yet. Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC, Rutherford Elec Member Corp and Broad River Electric Coop, Inc serve this county.
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No live outage data for Polk County yet.
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This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.i
From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.i
This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.i
From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.i
This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.i
From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.Outage map
Outage history in Polk County
2014–2025 recordPolk County averaged 60.3 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, about typical for North Carolina counties.
In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 69. Half were over within 2.5 hours; the longest lasted 27 hours, starting March 1, 2025.
The largest on record began September 26, 2024, with 17,366 customers out at once.
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At least 1% of the area's customers, and at least 100, without power at the same time. Outages less than 6 hours apart count as one.i
Half of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.| Largest events (start) | Peak out | LastediHow long this area stayed at or above the significant-outage line, not how long any one home was without power. | Customer-hoursiCustomers out multiplied by hours out, added up over the event. 1,000 customers out for 3 hours is 3,000 customer-hours. |
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| September 26, 2024 | 17,366 | 17 days | 2,679,642 |
| October 29, 2020 | 10,904 | 4.6 days | 450,565 |
| December 9, 2018 | 7,675 | 4.3 days | 326,906 |
| July 28, 2025 | 4,869 | 1.5 hours | 7,301 |
| January 20, 2019 | 4,593 | 30 hours | 32,372 |
Recorded outages from EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (CC BY 4.0).i
From EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's record of utility outage data every 15 minutes since 2014 (CC BY 4.0). It covered about 9 in 10 U.S. customers.
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- Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC no live feed
- Rutherford Elec Member Corp no live feed
- Broad River Electric Coop, Inc no live feed
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