County annual report · FIPS 37113
2020 Macon County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Macon County, NC went without power for an average of - hours, a total of 377K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours).
Compared with NC, the US and 2019
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, 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 | October 29, 2020 02:00 | November 3, 2020 00:30 | 4d 22h | 7,147 | 143K |
| 2 | April 13, 2020 01:00 | April 15, 2020 22:45 | 2d 21h | 4,884 | 85K |
| 3 | May 5, 2020 16:45 | May 7, 2020 00:15 | 1d 7h | 2,460 | 3,625 |
| 4 | January 11, 2020 04:00 | January 13, 2020 23:00 | 2d 19h | 2,229 | 44K |
| 5 | May 24, 2020 10:30 | May 25, 2020 09:45 | 23h 15m | 2,023 | 1,802 |
| 6 | January 8, 2020 14:00 | January 8, 2020 20:30 | 6h 30m | 1,820 | 2,790 |
| 7 | July 22, 2020 14:15 | July 23, 2020 00:15 | 10h | 1,393 | 4,179 |
| 8 | May 27, 2020 18:00 | May 27, 2020 23:00 | 5h | 1,265 | 365 |
| 9 | May 16, 2020 13:15 | May 16, 2020 14:45 | 1h 30m | 1,193 | 316 |
| 10 | July 7, 2020 19:30 | July 7, 2020 20:45 | 1h 15m | 1,187 | 1,484 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 89 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 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 |
| Haywood Electric Member Corp | 2020 | 19.4 hrs | 5.16 | 7.4 hrs | 3.70 |
| 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 91% of North Carolina's customers in 2020; 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, 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/macon-county