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2024 Caldwell County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Caldwell County, NC went without power for an average of 78.9 hours, a total of 3.4M customer-hours (North Carolina average 66.1 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 119th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Caldwell County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 26, 2024 09:45 | October 12, 2024 02:45 | 15d 17h | 37,284 | 3.3M |
| 2 | August 1, 2024 07:00 | August 1, 2024 09:30 | 2h 30m | 4,454 | 9,530 |
| 3 | September 23, 2024 23:30 | September 25, 2024 04:45 | 1d 5h | 4,049 | 5,960 |
| 4 | March 11, 2024 20:45 | March 12, 2024 02:45 | 6h | 2,649 | 7,985 |
| 5 | May 15, 2024 18:30 | May 16, 2024 02:15 | 7h 45m | 2,295 | 6,070 |
| 6 | May 10, 2024 20:45 | May 11, 2024 10:30 | 13h 45m | 1,956 | 1,973 |
| 7 | April 8, 2024 15:45 | April 9, 2024 07:15 | 15h 30m | 1,316 | 4,457 |
| 8 | August 8, 2024 12:45 | August 9, 2024 23:45 | 1d 11h | 1,180 | 5,652 |
| 9 | May 7, 2024 01:15 | May 8, 2024 14:30 | 1d 13h | 1,020 | 4,488 |
| 10 | June 30, 2024 05:30 | June 30, 2024 07:00 | 1h 30m | 993 | 1,490 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 65 reached 100+ customers, 9 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 2024, 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 | 2024 | 78.6 hrs | 2.50 | 2.9 hrs | 1.26 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2024 | 7.1 hrs | 2.13 | 2.1 hrs | 1.33 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2024 | 92.2 hrs | 2.48 | 5.8 hrs | 1.11 |
| Blue Ridge Elec Member Corp - (NC) | 2024 | 100.6 hrs | 3.32 | 1.5 hrs | 1.26 |
| 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 n/a of North Carolina's customers in 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/north-carolina/caldwell-county