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2025 Clay County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Clay County, NC went without power for an average of 6.8 hours, a total of 65K customer-hours (North Carolina average 9.8 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1182nd 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 Clay 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 5, 2025 20:00 | June 5, 2025 20:30 | 30m | 4,140 | 1,035 |
| 2 | October 27, 2025 12:45 | October 27, 2025 13:00 | 15m | 4,140 | 1,035 |
| 3 | January 5, 2025 23:30 | January 6, 2025 01:30 | 2h | 4,107 | 2,297 |
| 4 | December 19, 2025 00:45 | December 19, 2025 16:30 | 15h 45m | 2,747 | 2,791 |
| 5 | November 18, 2025 13:00 | November 18, 2025 16:30 | 3h 30m | 1,526 | 432 |
| 6 | March 1, 2025 21:15 | March 1, 2025 21:45 | 30m | 1,508 | 754 |
| 7 | June 7, 2025 21:45 | June 8, 2025 21:45 | 1d | 1,307 | 5,969 |
| 8 | November 25, 2025 14:30 | November 25, 2025 17:15 | 2h 45m | 1,230 | 3,383 |
| 9 | March 16, 2025 03:15 | March 17, 2025 23:15 | 1d 20h | 1,156 | 14K |
| 10 | May 2, 2025 19:00 | May 2, 2025 21:00 | 2h | 750 | 600 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 52 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 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 |
| 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 2025; 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, 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/clay-county