County annual report · FIPS 37027
2015 Caldwell County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Caldwell County, NC went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 65K customer-hours (North Carolina average 7.5 hours). That ranks 73rd worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 1480th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Caldwell County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 3, 2015 03:00 | July 3, 2015 03:45 | 45m | 2,651 | 1,988 |
| 2 | August 16, 2015 04:45 | August 16, 2015 06:45 | 2h | 2,649 | 5,298 |
| 3 | October 3, 2015 06:15 | October 4, 2015 08:45 | 1d 2h | 1,992 | 9,366 |
| 4 | August 30, 2015 10:15 | August 30, 2015 14:45 | 4h 30m | 1,853 | 2,321 |
| 5 | December 22, 2015 16:00 | December 22, 2015 17:15 | 1h 15m | 1,789 | 1,342 |
| 6 | February 26, 2015 05:45 | February 26, 2015 23:00 | 17h 15m | 1,561 | 9,058 |
| 7 | May 27, 2015 04:15 | May 27, 2015 08:00 | 3h 45m | 1,283 | 3,528 |
| 8 | June 19, 2015 00:00 | June 19, 2015 02:00 | 2h | 1,217 | 2,130 |
| 9 | February 14, 2015 22:45 | February 15, 2015 23:30 | 1d | 829 | 5,047 |
| 10 | October 13, 2015 10:45 | October 13, 2015 11:15 | 30m | 829 | 208 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 43 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Caldwell County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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 | 2015 | 5.3 hrs | 1.29 | 2.6 hrs | 1.02 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2015 | 2.2 hrs | 1.12 | 1.6 hrs | 0.96 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2015 | 62 min | 0.82 | 55 min | 0.79 |
| Blue Ridge Elec Member Corp - (NC) | 2015 | 82 min | 1.19 | 82 min | 1.19 |
| Town of Granite Falls - (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 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 43,296 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. Caldwell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Caldwell County, NC annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/north-carolina/caldwell-county