County annual report · FIPS 37043
2016 Clay County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Clay County, NC went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 290 customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 93rd worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 2291st 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 Clay County, 2016
The 6 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 8, 2016 17:30 | November 8, 2016 19:45 | 2h 15m | 82 | 164 |
| 2 | September 2, 2016 19:15 | September 2, 2016 19:30 | 15m | 43 | 11 |
| 3 | February 24, 2016 16:15 | February 24, 2016 16:30 | 15m | 14 | 4 |
| 4 | April 22, 2016 19:15 | April 22, 2016 22:45 | 3h 30m | 14 | 38 |
| 5 | December 18, 2016 11:15 | December 18, 2016 16:45 | 5h 30m | 14 | 74 |
| 6 | February 1, 2016 09:45 | February 1, 2016 10:15 | 30m | 1 | 1 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 0 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Clay 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) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 9,637 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. Clay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clay 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/clay-county