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2022 Clay County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Clay County, NC went without power for an average of 5.3 hours, a total of 52K customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 70th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1338th 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 Clay 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 | December 24, 2022 07:30 | December 24, 2022 17:30 | 10h | 2,955 | 4,147 |
| 2 | July 7, 2022 00:45 | July 7, 2022 06:15 | 5h 30m | 2,012 | 2,185 |
| 3 | August 1, 2022 16:15 | August 1, 2022 19:15 | 3h | 1,441 | 906 |
| 4 | May 3, 2022 16:45 | May 3, 2022 22:45 | 6h | 1,257 | 1,382 |
| 5 | January 3, 2022 08:30 | January 4, 2022 01:00 | 16h 30m | 1,064 | 5,511 |
| 6 | July 28, 2022 04:15 | July 28, 2022 06:15 | 2h | 691 | 1,382 |
| 7 | January 2, 2022 07:45 | January 2, 2022 21:15 | 13h 30m | 637 | 3,397 |
| 8 | January 16, 2022 11:45 | January 16, 2022 21:45 | 10h | 572 | 1,725 |
| 9 | May 6, 2022 15:00 | May 6, 2022 17:30 | 2h 30m | 417 | 107 |
| 10 | June 1, 2022 17:00 | June 1, 2022 22:00 | 5h | 417 | 1,581 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 50 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 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 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/clay-county