County annual report · FIPS 37113
2018 Macon County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Macon County, NC went without power for an average of - hours, a total of 330K customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours).
Compared with NC, the US and 2017
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, 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 | December 9, 2018 05:00 | December 13, 2018 04:45 | 3d 23h | 7,125 | 203K |
| 2 | June 23, 2018 19:00 | June 28, 2018 00:15 | 4d 5h | 2,307 | 35K |
| 3 | April 5, 2018 11:15 | April 5, 2018 15:15 | 4h | 1,752 | 4,726 |
| 4 | May 26, 2018 06:00 | May 26, 2018 10:30 | 4h 30m | 1,319 | 1,142 |
| 5 | October 11, 2018 01:45 | October 12, 2018 01:15 | 23h 30m | 1,295 | 3,965 |
| 6 | October 29, 2018 19:00 | October 29, 2018 19:15 | 15m | 1,267 | 317 |
| 7 | December 28, 2018 06:45 | December 28, 2018 08:30 | 1h 45m | 1,107 | 1,937 |
| 8 | August 8, 2018 18:15 | August 9, 2018 07:45 | 13h 30m | 986 | 1,158 |
| 9 | October 21, 2018 01:30 | October 22, 2018 07:00 | 1d 5h | 941 | 6,553 |
| 10 | April 1, 2018 19:45 | April 1, 2018 22:15 | 2h 30m | 876 | 898 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 60 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 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 |
| Haywood Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 33.4 hrs | 5.14 | 8.2 hrs | 3.40 |
| 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 82% of North Carolina's customers in 2018; 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, 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/macon-county