County annual report · FIPS 37043
2017 Clay County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Clay County, NC went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 2,586 customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.0 hours). That ranks 92nd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2434th 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 Clay 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 | March 29, 2017 00:00 | March 29, 2017 02:30 | 2h 30m | 41 | 82 |
| 2 | December 12, 2017 18:45 | December 12, 2017 19:15 | 30m | 41 | 21 |
| 3 | April 5, 2017 01:15 | April 5, 2017 01:45 | 30m | 40 | 20 |
| 4 | May 4, 2017 18:15 | May 5, 2017 00:30 | 6h 15m | 40 | 242 |
| 5 | July 12, 2017 20:30 | July 13, 2017 00:15 | 3h 45m | 40 | 150 |
| 6 | December 8, 2017 18:15 | December 11, 2017 01:00 | 2d 6h | 40 | 933 |
| 7 | January 29, 2017 09:00 | January 29, 2017 11:30 | 2h 30m | 39 | 88 |
| 8 | March 2, 2017 03:15 | March 3, 2017 00:15 | 21h | 14 | 294 |
| 9 | March 3, 2017 21:15 | March 4, 2017 00:00 | 2h 45m | 14 | 39 |
| 10 | May 1, 2017 15:15 | May 1, 2017 22:15 | 7h | 14 | 98 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 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 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 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/clay-county