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2016 Macon County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Macon County, NC went without power for an average of - hours, a total of 226K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours).
Compared with NC, the US and 2015
No loaded years to plot yet.
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Macon 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 | February 24, 2016 04:15 | February 26, 2016 01:30 | 1d 21h | 4,267 | 35K |
| 2 | July 9, 2016 00:15 | July 11, 2016 05:30 | 2d 5h | 4,190 | 98K |
| 3 | November 10, 2016 13:00 | November 10, 2016 21:30 | 8h 30m | 2,527 | 3,007 |
| 4 | November 19, 2016 17:00 | November 20, 2016 02:15 | 9h 15m | 2,414 | 2,545 |
| 5 | May 14, 2016 21:45 | May 14, 2016 23:30 | 1h 45m | 2,042 | 1,541 |
| 6 | November 2, 2016 14:30 | November 2, 2016 16:00 | 1h 30m | 1,661 | 834 |
| 7 | April 2, 2016 22:00 | April 4, 2016 05:00 | 1d 7h | 1,372 | 10K |
| 8 | October 9, 2016 08:30 | October 9, 2016 11:15 | 2h 45m | 1,261 | 3,468 |
| 9 | July 21, 2016 20:30 | July 22, 2016 09:45 | 13h 15m | 1,104 | 1,332 |
| 10 | January 22, 2016 09:30 | January 24, 2016 04:30 | 1d 19h | 1,075 | 17K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 47 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Macon 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 |
| Haywood Electric Member Corp | 2016 | 6.6 hrs | 3.05 | 6.6 hrs | 3.05 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Blue Ridge Mountain EMC - (GA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Highlands - (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 ÷ modeled 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. Macon County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Macon 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/macon-county