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2022 Caldwell County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Caldwell County, NC went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 107K customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 86th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2111th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Caldwell County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 14, 2022 11:00 | July 14, 2022 15:30 | 4h 30m | 5,433 | 5,422 |
| 2 | December 23, 2022 10:45 | December 25, 2022 21:45 | 2d 11h | 3,009 | 23K |
| 3 | June 2, 2022 20:00 | June 3, 2022 02:00 | 6h | 1,585 | 3,900 |
| 4 | August 20, 2022 22:30 | August 21, 2022 02:45 | 4h 15m | 1,315 | 1,318 |
| 5 | October 1, 2022 01:15 | October 1, 2022 10:45 | 9h 30m | 1,028 | 1,973 |
| 6 | March 12, 2022 11:30 | March 13, 2022 21:15 | 1d 9h | 1,018 | 3,513 |
| 7 | June 5, 2022 13:45 | June 5, 2022 14:30 | 45m | 1,000 | 518 |
| 8 | February 28, 2022 20:00 | February 28, 2022 21:30 | 1h 30m | 970 | 248 |
| 9 | July 5, 2022 00:15 | July 5, 2022 21:00 | 20h 45m | 968 | 4,020 |
| 10 | November 6, 2022 17:15 | November 7, 2022 02:00 | 8h 45m | 964 | 963 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 76 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 2022, 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 | 2022 | 7.1 hrs | 1.93 | 3.1 hrs | 1.35 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2022 | 4.9 hrs | 1.87 | 2.2 hrs | 1.37 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2022 | 2.0 hrs | 1.05 | 1.6 hrs | 0.88 |
| Blue Ridge Elec Member Corp - (NC) | 2022 | 2.0 hrs | 1.46 | 79 min | 1.08 |
| 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 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/north-carolina/caldwell-county