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2015 Watauga County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Watauga County, NC went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 11K customer-hours (North Carolina average 7.5 hours). That ranks 86th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 2011th 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 Watauga 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 6, 2015 17:30 | August 6, 2015 18:30 | 1h | 1,917 | 480 |
| 2 | September 14, 2015 15:00 | September 14, 2015 17:00 | 2h | 1,438 | 361 |
| 3 | October 4, 2015 18:30 | October 5, 2015 01:45 | 7h 15m | 1,024 | 933 |
| 4 | October 22, 2015 17:00 | October 22, 2015 17:30 | 30m | 939 | 235 |
| 5 | August 11, 2015 09:45 | August 11, 2015 11:45 | 2h | 502 | 991 |
| 6 | November 7, 2015 10:15 | November 7, 2015 11:00 | 45m | 487 | 244 |
| 7 | August 5, 2015 06:15 | August 5, 2015 08:00 | 1h 45m | 486 | 623 |
| 8 | September 28, 2015 06:15 | September 28, 2015 07:45 | 1h 30m | 414 | 621 |
| 9 | November 9, 2015 16:15 | November 9, 2015 21:45 | 5h 30m | 352 | 307 |
| 10 | November 11, 2015 14:00 | November 11, 2015 14:15 | 15m | 347 | 87 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 20 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Watauga 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 |
| New River Light & Power Co | 2015 | 16 min | 0.20 | 16 min | 0.20 |
| Mountain Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 18,248 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. Watauga County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Watauga 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/watauga-county