County annual report · FIPS 37039
2016 Cherokee County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Cherokee County, NC went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 38K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 88th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 1209th 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 Cherokee 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 | September 2, 2016 19:15 | September 2, 2016 20:15 | 1h | 3,313 | 900 |
| 2 | November 29, 2016 00:00 | November 30, 2016 03:15 | 1d 3h | 2,359 | 7,968 |
| 3 | January 12, 2016 10:00 | January 12, 2016 12:45 | 2h 45m | 2,328 | 4,469 |
| 4 | July 6, 2016 23:15 | July 8, 2016 14:30 | 1d 15h | 1,396 | 5,862 |
| 5 | May 12, 2016 21:45 | May 12, 2016 22:45 | 1h | 1,344 | 1,344 |
| 6 | November 30, 2016 08:15 | November 30, 2016 09:30 | 1h 15m | 1,332 | 939 |
| 7 | January 4, 2016 00:30 | January 4, 2016 01:15 | 45m | 1,331 | 666 |
| 8 | January 6, 2016 15:45 | January 6, 2016 19:00 | 3h 15m | 1,329 | 678 |
| 9 | February 24, 2016 08:30 | February 25, 2016 06:15 | 21h 45m | 1,327 | 2,312 |
| 10 | December 4, 2016 12:45 | December 4, 2016 16:45 | 4h | 646 | 1,516 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 22 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 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 |
| 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 2016; 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, 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/cherokee-county