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2015 McDowell County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in McDowell County, NC went without power for an average of 3.9 hours, a total of 49K customer-hours (North Carolina average 7.5 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 722nd 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 McDowell 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 | October 14, 2015 21:00 | October 15, 2015 03:15 | 6h 15m | 3,751 | 4,295 |
| 2 | July 9, 2015 03:00 | July 9, 2015 07:30 | 4h 30m | 950 | 1,851 |
| 3 | June 30, 2015 22:15 | July 1, 2015 10:00 | 11h 45m | 893 | 4,615 |
| 4 | July 18, 2015 11:30 | July 18, 2015 13:45 | 2h 15m | 836 | 1,250 |
| 5 | September 29, 2015 16:30 | September 30, 2015 07:30 | 15h | 537 | 6,651 |
| 6 | August 22, 2015 16:15 | August 22, 2015 17:45 | 1h 30m | 503 | 127 |
| 7 | June 17, 2015 20:30 | June 18, 2015 04:00 | 7h 30m | 442 | 794 |
| 8 | September 29, 2015 03:00 | September 29, 2015 15:00 | 12h | 431 | 1,214 |
| 9 | July 8, 2015 19:15 | July 8, 2015 23:15 | 4h | 336 | 473 |
| 10 | October 2, 2015 11:45 | October 2, 2015 17:00 | 5h 15m | 305 | 1,227 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 33 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 McDowell 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 Progress - (NC) | 2015 | 4.8 hrs | 1.90 | 3.0 hrs | 1.65 |
| Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC | 2015 | 5.3 hrs | 1.29 | 2.6 hrs | 1.02 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2015 | 62 min | 0.82 | 55 min | 0.79 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| French Broad Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 12,442 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. McDowell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McDowell 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/mcdowell-county