County annual report · FIPS 37027
2017 Caldwell County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Caldwell County, NC went without power for an average of 6.7 hours, a total of 290K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.0 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 787th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Caldwell County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 8, 2017 16:00 | December 11, 2017 01:15 | 2d 9h | 5,451 | 63K |
| 2 | October 23, 2017 21:00 | October 28, 2017 00:30 | 4d 3h | 3,972 | 118K |
| 3 | September 17, 2017 18:30 | September 17, 2017 22:30 | 4h | 3,175 | 4,591 |
| 4 | June 14, 2017 21:15 | June 15, 2017 18:45 | 21h 30m | 2,542 | 2,814 |
| 5 | October 16, 2017 21:45 | October 17, 2017 09:00 | 11h 15m | 2,504 | 24K |
| 6 | October 29, 2017 17:15 | October 30, 2017 03:45 | 10h 30m | 2,091 | 4,417 |
| 7 | April 6, 2017 13:45 | April 7, 2017 06:30 | 16h 45m | 2,007 | 2,838 |
| 8 | May 9, 2017 12:30 | May 9, 2017 18:30 | 6h | 1,974 | 1,995 |
| 9 | July 3, 2017 19:45 | July 3, 2017 23:30 | 3h 45m | 1,922 | 4,292 |
| 10 | July 27, 2017 16:15 | July 28, 2017 04:45 | 12h 30m | 1,915 | 2,406 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 60 reached 100+ customers, 19 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 2017, 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 | 2017 | 8.8 hrs | 1.52 | 3.1 hrs | 1.11 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2017 | 3.0 hrs | 1.26 | 1.6 hrs | 1.02 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2017 | 3.3 hrs | 1.59 | 72 min | 1.09 |
| Blue Ridge Elec Member Corp - (NC) | 2017 | 3.6 hrs | 1.52 | 73 min | 0.99 |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/north-carolina/caldwell-county