County annual report · FIPS 37027
2016 Caldwell County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Caldwell County, NC went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 154K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 81st worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 872nd of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Caldwell County, 2016
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 8, 2016 23:00 | July 11, 2016 05:45 | 2d 6h | 4,873 | 26K |
| 2 | February 16, 2016 05:30 | February 17, 2016 14:45 | 1d 9h | 2,803 | 19K |
| 3 | June 21, 2016 11:15 | June 21, 2016 13:15 | 2h | 2,485 | 1,277 |
| 4 | June 27, 2016 19:15 | June 28, 2016 08:00 | 12h 45m | 2,002 | 2,590 |
| 5 | January 9, 2016 15:30 | January 9, 2016 21:15 | 5h 45m | 1,989 | 8,690 |
| 6 | December 12, 2016 18:00 | December 12, 2016 21:00 | 3h | 1,982 | 1,984 |
| 7 | April 9, 2016 13:15 | April 10, 2016 01:15 | 12h | 1,966 | 5,897 |
| 8 | November 14, 2016 18:30 | November 14, 2016 22:00 | 3h 30m | 1,251 | 2,549 |
| 9 | February 24, 2016 15:00 | February 26, 2016 23:00 | 2d 8h | 1,125 | 31K |
| 10 | January 12, 2016 17:45 | January 13, 2016 06:30 | 12h 45m | 1,005 | 1,561 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 60 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 2016, 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 | 2016 | 5.2 hrs | 1.34 | 2.8 hrs | 1.08 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2016 | 2.5 hrs | 1.15 | 1.7 hrs | 0.96 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2016 | 2.0 hrs | 1.14 | 47 min | 0.57 |
| Blue Ridge Elec Member Corp - (NC) | 2016 | 4.9 hrs | 1.60 | 84 min | 1.10 |
| 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 2016; 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, 2016, 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/2016/north-carolina/caldwell-county