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2015 Ashe County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Ashe County, NC went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 8,210 customer-hours (North Carolina average 7.5 hours). That ranks 88th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 2089th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Ashe County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 26, 2015 14:15 | August 26, 2015 15:15 | 1h | 1,702 | 428 |
| 2 | December 14, 2015 16:45 | December 14, 2015 19:00 | 2h 15m | 1,357 | 737 |
| 3 | December 8, 2015 15:30 | December 8, 2015 22:00 | 6h 30m | 635 | 433 |
| 4 | August 9, 2015 22:00 | August 9, 2015 23:45 | 1h 45m | 591 | 447 |
| 5 | September 6, 2015 21:00 | September 6, 2015 23:45 | 2h 45m | 415 | 606 |
| 6 | August 28, 2015 16:00 | August 28, 2015 20:15 | 4h 15m | 177 | 312 |
| 7 | November 19, 2015 06:30 | November 19, 2015 12:00 | 5h 30m | 169 | 363 |
| 8 | September 7, 2015 00:30 | September 7, 2015 02:15 | 1h 45m | 149 | 39 |
| 9 | October 27, 2015 18:30 | October 27, 2015 21:00 | 2h 30m | 104 | 132 |
| 10 | September 26, 2015 01:15 | September 26, 2015 06:00 | 4h 45m | 97 | 244 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 9 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Ashe County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Ridge Elec Member Corp - (NC) | 2015 | 82 min | 1.19 | 82 min | 1.19 |
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 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 17,506 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. Ashe County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ashe County, NC annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/north-carolina/ashe-county