County annual report · FIPS 37043
2019 Clay County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Clay County, NC went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 88th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2102nd 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 Clay 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 | September 22, 2019 09:45 | September 22, 2019 15:30 | 5h 45m | 2,720 | 1,092 |
| 2 | November 13, 2019 20:45 | November 13, 2019 21:00 | 15m | 1,418 | 355 |
| 3 | June 24, 2019 22:45 | June 25, 2019 08:30 | 9h 45m | 1,113 | 2,254 |
| 4 | June 10, 2019 10:00 | June 10, 2019 12:15 | 2h 15m | 806 | 1,009 |
| 5 | September 28, 2019 20:45 | September 28, 2019 22:15 | 1h 30m | 285 | 214 |
| 6 | August 14, 2019 01:15 | August 14, 2019 06:00 | 4h 45m | 252 | 808 |
| 7 | December 17, 2019 05:30 | December 17, 2019 16:15 | 10h 45m | 228 | 845 |
| 8 | August 29, 2019 13:00 | August 29, 2019 15:45 | 2h 45m | 217 | 597 |
| 9 | September 25, 2019 17:15 | September 25, 2019 19:00 | 1h 45m | 200 | 341 |
| 10 | December 3, 2019 23:15 | December 4, 2019 00:15 | 1h | 147 | 80 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 19 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 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 |
| 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 90% of North Carolina's customers in 2019; 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, 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/clay-county