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2024 Macon County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Macon County, NC went without power for an average of - hours, a total of 976K customer-hours (North Carolina average 66.1 hours).
Compared with NC, the US and 2023
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Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Macon 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 25, 2024 15:45 | October 11, 2024 23:30 | 16d 7h | 11,221 | 795K |
| 2 | April 23, 2024 07:30 | April 23, 2024 13:15 | 5h 45m | 3,434 | 14K |
| 3 | May 9, 2024 04:15 | May 10, 2024 02:30 | 22h 15m | 3,123 | 22K |
| 4 | July 13, 2024 02:15 | July 14, 2024 00:00 | 21h 45m | 2,651 | 16K |
| 5 | May 14, 2024 14:15 | May 14, 2024 23:00 | 8h 45m | 1,880 | 3,326 |
| 6 | December 29, 2024 06:15 | January 1, 2025 00:00 | 2d 17h | 1,878 | 13K |
| 7 | May 16, 2024 16:00 | May 16, 2024 21:00 | 5h | 1,770 | 894 |
| 8 | January 12, 2024 14:00 | January 13, 2024 09:45 | 19h 45m | 1,744 | 2,484 |
| 9 | October 28, 2024 13:30 | October 28, 2024 19:45 | 6h 15m | 1,264 | 1,278 |
| 10 | February 10, 2024 05:15 | February 10, 2024 08:15 | 3h | 1,244 | 3,732 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 86 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Macon 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 |
| Haywood Electric Member Corp | 2024 | 160.2 hrs | 6.66 | 9.4 hrs | 3.60 |
| Blue Ridge Mountain EMC - (GA) | 2024 | 9.8 hrs | 4.79 | 6.2 hrs | 3.86 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/macon-county