County annual report · FIPS 37043
2020 Clay County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Clay County, NC went without power for an average of 13.8 hours, a total of 133K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 603rd 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 Clay 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 | January 11, 2020 22:45 | January 13, 2020 21:00 | 1d 22h | 4,092 | 51K |
| 2 | October 29, 2020 06:45 | October 31, 2020 23:45 | 2d 17h | 3,131 | 26K |
| 3 | July 5, 2020 20:00 | July 6, 2020 02:45 | 6h 45m | 2,738 | 2,118 |
| 4 | April 9, 2020 07:00 | April 10, 2020 00:30 | 17h 30m | 2,687 | 11K |
| 5 | April 27, 2020 12:00 | April 27, 2020 14:00 | 2h | 1,843 | 2,708 |
| 6 | May 12, 2020 18:30 | May 12, 2020 19:45 | 1h 15m | 1,753 | 2,191 |
| 7 | January 11, 2020 11:45 | January 11, 2020 21:30 | 9h 45m | 1,727 | 1,313 |
| 8 | May 11, 2020 20:45 | May 12, 2020 02:30 | 5h 45m | 1,419 | 2,854 |
| 9 | June 29, 2020 22:15 | June 30, 2020 03:00 | 4h 45m | 795 | 1,274 |
| 10 | April 12, 2020 23:15 | April 13, 2020 01:00 | 1h 45m | 784 | 1,186 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 43 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 Clay 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 |
| 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 91% of North Carolina's customers in 2020; 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, 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/clay-county