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2022 Cherokee County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Cherokee County, NC went without power for an average of 16.4 hours, a total of 265K customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 409th 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 Cherokee 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 11, 2022 08:00 | July 11, 2022 17:00 | 9h | 6,743 | 12K |
| 2 | December 23, 2022 06:45 | December 24, 2022 23:00 | 1d 16h | 4,179 | 11K |
| 3 | July 8, 2022 23:15 | July 10, 2022 23:30 | 2d | 3,034 | 30K |
| 4 | June 17, 2022 19:30 | June 18, 2022 21:30 | 1d 2h | 2,898 | 11K |
| 5 | July 31, 2022 02:45 | July 31, 2022 23:45 | 21h | 2,793 | 17K |
| 6 | November 27, 2022 11:00 | November 28, 2022 00:00 | 13h | 2,617 | 10K |
| 7 | January 3, 2022 05:45 | January 5, 2022 03:30 | 1d 21h | 2,517 | 26K |
| 8 | December 26, 2022 12:45 | December 27, 2022 00:15 | 11h 30m | 2,108 | 6,443 |
| 9 | June 8, 2022 15:30 | June 9, 2022 10:15 | 18h 45m | 2,058 | 14K |
| 10 | December 25, 2022 13:15 | December 25, 2022 21:30 | 8h 15m | 2,055 | 9,522 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 85 reached 100+ customers, 24 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 Cherokee 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 |
| Blue Ridge Mountain EMC - (GA) | 2022 | 8.5 hrs | 5.46 | 6.0 hrs | 3.23 |
| Tri-State Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Murphy - (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 ÷ 16,160 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. Cherokee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cherokee 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/cherokee-county