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2023 Macon County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Macon County, NC went without power for an average of - hours, a total of 300K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.6 hours).
Compared with NC, the US and 2022
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Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Macon County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 3, 2023 16:45 | March 5, 2023 19:45 | 2d 3h | 7,013 | 92K |
| 2 | August 7, 2023 19:15 | August 9, 2023 00:45 | 1d 5h | 2,703 | 14K |
| 3 | April 1, 2023 17:15 | April 2, 2023 23:30 | 1d 6h | 2,405 | 24K |
| 4 | May 7, 2023 23:45 | May 8, 2023 05:15 | 5h 30m | 2,197 | 1,263 |
| 5 | February 15, 2023 20:00 | February 15, 2023 22:15 | 2h 15m | 1,858 | 1,715 |
| 6 | March 17, 2023 18:15 | March 17, 2023 23:00 | 4h 45m | 1,714 | 4,683 |
| 7 | May 24, 2023 14:45 | May 24, 2023 15:45 | 1h | 1,539 | 1,155 |
| 8 | January 4, 2023 09:45 | January 5, 2023 05:00 | 19h 15m | 1,495 | 4,564 |
| 9 | August 25, 2023 10:15 | August 25, 2023 17:30 | 7h 15m | 1,399 | 2,798 |
| 10 | September 9, 2023 03:00 | September 9, 2023 05:15 | 2h 15m | 1,386 | 2,773 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 118 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 Macon County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 5.0 hrs | 1.68 | 3.3 hrs | 1.52 |
| Haywood Electric Member Corp | 2023 | 10.6 hrs | 3.75 | 8.1 hrs | 3.15 |
| Blue Ridge Mountain EMC - (GA) | 2023 | 10.7 hrs | 4.78 | 5.4 hrs | 3.19 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Highlands - (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 n/a of North Carolina's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ modeled 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. Macon County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Macon County, NC annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/north-carolina/macon-county