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2022 Madison County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Madison County, NC went without power for an average of 16.3 hours, a total of 36K customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 414th 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 Madison 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 | May 26, 2022 10:30 | May 26, 2022 16:45 | 6h 15m | 838 | 1,174 |
| 2 | May 26, 2022 18:00 | May 27, 2022 20:00 | 1d 2h | 810 | 1,498 |
| 3 | April 13, 2022 17:30 | April 13, 2022 23:00 | 5h 30m | 750 | 1,422 |
| 4 | September 26, 2022 04:45 | September 26, 2022 14:15 | 9h 30m | 701 | 199 |
| 5 | January 16, 2022 16:00 | January 17, 2022 18:30 | 1d 2h | 691 | 2,068 |
| 6 | July 25, 2022 23:30 | July 26, 2022 11:45 | 12h 15m | 586 | 380 |
| 7 | September 30, 2022 23:30 | October 1, 2022 14:30 | 15h | 574 | 511 |
| 8 | December 9, 2022 20:15 | December 9, 2022 21:15 | 1h | 545 | 139 |
| 9 | March 26, 2022 14:15 | March 27, 2022 10:30 | 20h 15m | 496 | 2,221 |
| 10 | December 23, 2022 08:45 | December 24, 2022 05:45 | 21h | 463 | 2,150 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 31 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Madison 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 Progress - (NC) | 2022 | 9.8 hrs | 2.35 | 2.2 hrs | 1.26 |
| Haywood Electric Member Corp | 2022 | 13.3 hrs | 3.96 | 7.9 hrs | 3.13 |
| French Broad Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 2,231 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. Madison County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Madison 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/madison-county