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2021 Caldwell County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Caldwell County, NC went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 78K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.3 hours). That ranks 82nd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2326th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Caldwell County, 2021
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 26, 2021 13:45 | October 27, 2021 03:45 | 14h | 3,552 | 9,420 |
| 2 | October 30, 2021 12:00 | October 30, 2021 12:15 | 15m | 2,520 | 630 |
| 3 | October 30, 2021 17:45 | October 30, 2021 18:15 | 30m | 2,520 | 631 |
| 4 | October 1, 2021 04:30 | October 1, 2021 07:45 | 3h 15m | 1,822 | 5,009 |
| 5 | May 24, 2021 12:15 | May 24, 2021 16:00 | 3h 45m | 1,819 | 914 |
| 6 | April 11, 2021 00:45 | April 12, 2021 07:15 | 1d 6h | 1,680 | 13K |
| 7 | January 13, 2021 12:45 | January 13, 2021 13:30 | 45m | 1,294 | 971 |
| 8 | October 7, 2021 13:30 | October 8, 2021 06:15 | 16h 45m | 1,291 | 1,863 |
| 9 | April 25, 2021 05:30 | April 25, 2021 09:45 | 4h 15m | 1,201 | 1,259 |
| 10 | February 7, 2021 10:15 | February 8, 2021 05:00 | 18h 45m | 1,128 | 1,985 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 43 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 2021, 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 | 2021 | 3.5 hrs | 1.20 | 2.5 hrs | 1.10 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2021 | 2.1 hrs | 1.04 | 84 min | 0.90 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2021 | 1.7 hrs | 0.85 | 63 min | 0.61 |
| Blue Ridge Elec Member Corp - (NC) | 2021 | 89 min | 1.04 | 62 min | 0.90 |
| 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 92% of North Carolina's customers in 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/north-carolina/caldwell-county