County annual report · FIPS 37039
2018 Cherokee County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Cherokee County, NC went without power for an average of 11.5 hours, a total of 187K customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 64th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 476th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cherokee County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 27, 2018 18:00 | June 29, 2018 04:45 | 1d 10h | 2,874 | 26K |
| 2 | December 9, 2018 06:15 | December 12, 2018 17:45 | 3d 11h | 2,313 | 83K |
| 3 | July 15, 2018 22:30 | July 16, 2018 01:00 | 2h 30m | 1,345 | 2,574 |
| 4 | July 21, 2018 10:30 | July 21, 2018 20:00 | 9h 30m | 1,334 | 3,681 |
| 5 | September 6, 2018 14:30 | September 6, 2018 15:45 | 1h 15m | 1,330 | 686 |
| 6 | January 6, 2018 05:30 | January 6, 2018 08:15 | 2h 45m | 1,311 | 2,486 |
| 7 | June 23, 2018 19:00 | June 25, 2018 03:15 | 1d 8h | 1,295 | 17K |
| 8 | June 11, 2018 22:15 | June 12, 2018 01:00 | 2h 45m | 1,132 | 1,324 |
| 9 | June 21, 2018 03:45 | June 21, 2018 05:30 | 1h 45m | 1,050 | 1,838 |
| 10 | May 27, 2018 03:00 | May 27, 2018 10:30 | 7h 30m | 718 | 846 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 48 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Cherokee County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 13.1 hrs | 1.81 | 3.7 hrs | 1.19 |
| Blue Ridge Mountain EMC - (GA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tri-State Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Murphy - (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 82% of North Carolina's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 16,160 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. Cherokee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cherokee County, NC annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/north-carolina/cherokee-county