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2025 Caldwell County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Caldwell County, NC went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 70K customer-hours (North Carolina average 9.8 hours). That ranks 89th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2564th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Caldwell County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 9, 2025 21:15 | June 10, 2025 03:00 | 5h 45m | 2,026 | 9,051 |
| 2 | April 29, 2025 13:15 | April 30, 2025 01:45 | 12h 30m | 1,594 | 2,690 |
| 3 | June 17, 2025 13:45 | June 18, 2025 00:00 | 10h 15m | 1,590 | 1,047 |
| 4 | June 14, 2025 22:15 | June 15, 2025 16:45 | 18h 30m | 1,318 | 3,102 |
| 5 | October 30, 2025 12:45 | October 30, 2025 20:15 | 7h 30m | 1,095 | 760 |
| 6 | July 1, 2025 13:00 | July 1, 2025 13:30 | 30m | 1,009 | 253 |
| 7 | November 25, 2025 17:45 | November 25, 2025 19:30 | 1h 45m | 1,005 | 253 |
| 8 | April 3, 2025 01:15 | April 3, 2025 04:45 | 3h 30m | 993 | 1,047 |
| 9 | October 6, 2025 12:00 | October 6, 2025 13:00 | 1h | 976 | 490 |
| 10 | July 8, 2025 13:45 | July 9, 2025 05:00 | 15h 15m | 847 | 1,214 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 60 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Caldwell County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/north-carolina/caldwell-county