County annual report · FIPS 37193
2015 Wilkes County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Wilkes County, NC went without power for an average of 11.9 hours, a total of 96K customer-hours (North Carolina average 7.5 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 222nd 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 Wilkes 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 | June 19, 2015 15:15 | June 20, 2015 04:00 | 12h 45m | 1,883 | 5,624 |
| 2 | January 15, 2015 17:45 | January 15, 2015 23:00 | 5h 15m | 1,777 | 1,782 |
| 3 | June 27, 2015 19:15 | June 28, 2015 05:30 | 10h 15m | 1,468 | 3,229 |
| 4 | September 27, 2015 06:15 | September 28, 2015 23:45 | 1d 17h | 1,374 | 10K |
| 5 | July 25, 2015 22:45 | July 26, 2015 07:15 | 8h 30m | 1,307 | 1,694 |
| 6 | June 8, 2015 07:30 | June 9, 2015 21:15 | 1d 13h | 1,217 | 5,657 |
| 7 | February 20, 2015 11:00 | February 21, 2015 00:15 | 13h 15m | 1,065 | 2,782 |
| 8 | September 29, 2015 08:45 | September 30, 2015 16:45 | 1d 8h | 1,048 | 8,339 |
| 9 | February 26, 2015 08:45 | February 26, 2015 19:30 | 10h 45m | 1,045 | 6,312 |
| 10 | September 1, 2015 21:15 | September 1, 2015 23:45 | 2h 30m | 1,002 | 2,348 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 57 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Wilkes 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC | 2015 | 5.3 hrs | 1.29 | 2.6 hrs | 1.02 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2015 | 2.2 hrs | 1.12 | 1.6 hrs | 0.96 |
| Blue Ridge Elec Member Corp - (NC) | 2015 | 82 min | 1.19 | 82 min | 1.19 |
| Surry-Yadkin Elec Member Corp | 2015 | 2.9 hrs | 1.25 | 1.6 hrs | 0.84 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 8,042 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. Wilkes County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wilkes 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/wilkes-county