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2015 Cherokee County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Cherokee County, NC went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 37K customer-hours (North Carolina average 7.5 hours). That ranks 69th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 1140th 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 Cherokee 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 14, 2015 16:15 | July 16, 2015 08:30 | 1d 16h | 3,611 | 19K |
| 2 | December 30, 2015 22:00 | December 31, 2015 00:15 | 2h 15m | 1,328 | 2,797 |
| 3 | June 17, 2015 14:15 | June 17, 2015 16:30 | 2h 15m | 1,305 | 328 |
| 4 | September 30, 2015 13:30 | September 30, 2015 19:00 | 5h 30m | 1,058 | 1,063 |
| 5 | September 17, 2015 14:00 | September 17, 2015 16:45 | 2h 45m | 726 | 1,049 |
| 6 | February 26, 2015 04:45 | February 26, 2015 18:45 | 14h | 432 | 1,316 |
| 7 | December 25, 2015 16:00 | December 25, 2015 23:00 | 7h | 403 | 1,126 |
| 8 | January 4, 2015 03:15 | January 4, 2015 06:15 | 3h | 357 | 823 |
| 9 | May 13, 2015 05:00 | May 13, 2015 20:30 | 15h 30m | 347 | 1,431 |
| 10 | October 1, 2015 23:45 | October 2, 2015 03:45 | 4h | 309 | 694 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 16 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Cherokee 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 |
| Blue Ridge Mountain EMC - (GA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tri-State Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Murphy - (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 ÷ 16,160 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. Cherokee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cherokee 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/cherokee-county