County annual report · FIPS 37027
2020 Caldwell County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Caldwell County, NC went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 105K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 86th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2087th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Caldwell County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 8, 2020 21:30 | August 9, 2020 07:30 | 10h | 4,253 | 7,808 |
| 2 | October 29, 2020 10:15 | November 3, 2020 17:15 | 5d 7h | 2,272 | 33K |
| 3 | December 6, 2020 00:15 | December 6, 2020 04:00 | 3h 45m | 1,450 | 2,923 |
| 4 | August 14, 2020 06:30 | August 14, 2020 10:30 | 4h | 1,292 | 650 |
| 5 | April 28, 2020 15:15 | April 28, 2020 15:30 | 15m | 1,235 | 309 |
| 6 | February 26, 2020 06:45 | February 26, 2020 16:15 | 9h 30m | 1,232 | 2,471 |
| 7 | April 13, 2020 05:00 | April 14, 2020 21:30 | 1d 16h | 1,036 | 7,774 |
| 8 | August 1, 2020 01:00 | August 1, 2020 23:30 | 22h 30m | 958 | 994 |
| 9 | September 25, 2020 02:45 | September 25, 2020 06:45 | 4h | 882 | 768 |
| 10 | September 10, 2020 11:45 | September 10, 2020 12:15 | 30m | 879 | 440 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 64 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 Caldwell County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 | 2020 | 11.2 hrs | 1.71 | 3.1 hrs | 1.18 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2020 | 10.0 hrs | 1.79 | 2.2 hrs | 1.14 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2020 | 5.2 hrs | 1.38 | 86 min | 0.94 |
| Blue Ridge Elec Member Corp - (NC) | 2020 | 75 min | 1.02 | 69 min | 0.97 |
| 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 91% of North Carolina's customers in 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/north-carolina/caldwell-county