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2015 Gates County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Gates County, NC went without power for an average of 7.5 hours, a total of 41K customer-hours (North Carolina average 7.5 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 361st 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 Gates 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 | November 21, 2015 12:15 | November 21, 2015 15:00 | 2h 45m | 3,787 | 4,040 |
| 2 | August 19, 2015 03:30 | August 19, 2015 13:30 | 10h | 1,202 | 10K |
| 3 | August 6, 2015 22:30 | August 7, 2015 15:00 | 16h 30m | 927 | 14K |
| 4 | May 16, 2015 12:15 | May 16, 2015 13:45 | 1h 30m | 798 | 1,166 |
| 5 | September 26, 2015 16:45 | September 26, 2015 18:30 | 1h 45m | 591 | 445 |
| 6 | March 2, 2015 02:15 | March 2, 2015 06:15 | 4h | 426 | 1,369 |
| 7 | February 20, 2015 12:30 | February 20, 2015 22:30 | 10h | 289 | 2,608 |
| 8 | June 25, 2015 22:45 | June 26, 2015 20:30 | 21h 45m | 250 | 2,791 |
| 9 | July 18, 2015 21:00 | July 19, 2015 01:15 | 4h 15m | 198 | 414 |
| 10 | May 18, 2015 12:15 | May 18, 2015 12:30 | 15m | 159 | 40 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 15 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 Gates 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roanoke Electric Member Corp | 2015 | 4.2 hrs | 2.30 | 3.9 hrs | 2.24 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,460 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. Gates County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Gates 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/gates-county