County annual report · FIPS 37113
2017 Macon County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Macon County, NC went without power for an average of - hours, a total of 550K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.0 hours).
Compared with NC, the US and 2016
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, 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 14:15 | December 12, 2017 00:45 | 3d 10h | 7,263 | 137K |
| 2 | September 11, 2017 19:45 | September 16, 2017 13:00 | 4d 17h | 7,148 | 254K |
| 3 | May 1, 2017 09:15 | May 3, 2017 04:15 | 1d 19h | 4,702 | 49K |
| 4 | April 26, 2017 22:45 | April 27, 2017 10:00 | 11h 15m | 2,167 | 3,052 |
| 5 | March 22, 2017 12:00 | March 23, 2017 02:15 | 14h 15m | 2,123 | 3,727 |
| 6 | June 24, 2017 16:30 | June 25, 2017 00:30 | 8h | 1,680 | 2,897 |
| 7 | October 8, 2017 17:15 | October 10, 2017 02:15 | 1d 9h | 1,633 | 19K |
| 8 | August 9, 2017 18:30 | August 9, 2017 19:15 | 45m | 1,480 | 372 |
| 9 | August 27, 2017 15:45 | August 28, 2017 00:45 | 9h | 1,377 | 5,529 |
| 10 | June 14, 2017 18:45 | June 15, 2017 06:00 | 11h 15m | 1,317 | 3,357 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 56 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 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 |
| Haywood Electric Member Corp | 2017 | 28.4 hrs | 5.16 | 7.7 hrs | 3.76 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/macon-county