County annual report · FIPS 37027
2019 Caldwell County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Caldwell County, NC went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 93K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 85th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1984th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Caldwell County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 9, 2019 12:30 | January 10, 2019 11:00 | 22h 30m | 4,244 | 6,473 |
| 2 | January 19, 2019 05:15 | January 19, 2019 06:00 | 45m | 3,484 | 1,742 |
| 3 | June 8, 2019 16:45 | June 11, 2019 01:30 | 2d 8h | 2,737 | 23K |
| 4 | April 14, 2019 19:45 | April 15, 2019 00:00 | 4h 15m | 2,486 | 3,635 |
| 5 | May 30, 2019 20:15 | May 31, 2019 00:15 | 4h | 1,824 | 1,654 |
| 6 | April 30, 2019 17:45 | April 30, 2019 23:15 | 5h 30m | 1,807 | 2,286 |
| 7 | August 22, 2019 16:45 | August 22, 2019 23:45 | 7h | 1,333 | 6,518 |
| 8 | May 31, 2019 17:00 | June 1, 2019 02:45 | 9h 45m | 1,310 | 2,232 |
| 9 | August 13, 2019 14:15 | August 14, 2019 03:45 | 13h 30m | 939 | 895 |
| 10 | August 17, 2019 18:30 | August 17, 2019 20:00 | 1h 30m | 898 | 686 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 53 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 2019, 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 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2018 | 10.9 hrs | 1.77 | 2.0 hrs | 1.07 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2018 | 6.8 hrs | 1.63 | 1.9 hrs | 0.82 |
| Blue Ridge Elec Member Corp - (NC) | 2018 | 5.7 hrs | 1.87 | 76 min | 0.96 |
| 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 90% of North Carolina's customers in 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/north-carolina/caldwell-county