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2024 Clay County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Clay County, NC went without power for an average of 9.7 hours, a total of 94K customer-hours (North Carolina average 66.1 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 949th 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 Clay 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 | May 27, 2024 09:45 | May 28, 2024 19:30 | 1d 9h | 5,315 | 35K |
| 2 | September 8, 2024 23:15 | September 9, 2024 03:00 | 3h 45m | 2,394 | 4,123 |
| 3 | September 27, 2024 03:30 | September 28, 2024 17:00 | 1d 13h | 2,042 | 14K |
| 4 | July 27, 2024 11:15 | July 27, 2024 12:15 | 1h | 1,828 | 459 |
| 5 | April 15, 2024 15:15 | April 15, 2024 18:00 | 2h 45m | 1,485 | 2,228 |
| 6 | March 9, 2024 20:45 | March 10, 2024 02:00 | 5h 15m | 1,448 | 734 |
| 7 | July 5, 2024 19:30 | July 6, 2024 02:30 | 7h | 1,329 | 1,349 |
| 8 | May 9, 2024 04:00 | May 10, 2024 02:30 | 22h 30m | 1,034 | 6,290 |
| 9 | September 30, 2024 12:00 | September 30, 2024 13:30 | 1h 30m | 700 | 885 |
| 10 | October 1, 2024 21:15 | October 1, 2024 22:15 | 1h | 700 | 350 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 46 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 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 |
| Blue Ridge Mountain EMC - (GA) | 2024 | 9.8 hrs | 4.79 | 6.2 hrs | 3.86 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/clay-county