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2016 Ashe County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Ashe County, NC went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 54K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 84th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 968th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Ashe County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 23, 2016 19:15 | July 23, 2016 23:30 | 4h 15m | 5,195 | 14K |
| 2 | April 2, 2016 22:45 | April 3, 2016 20:45 | 22h | 2,014 | 3,694 |
| 3 | July 8, 2016 23:00 | July 11, 2016 19:00 | 2d 20h | 1,474 | 15K |
| 4 | July 14, 2016 23:00 | July 15, 2016 06:45 | 7h 45m | 1,362 | 1,133 |
| 5 | June 7, 2016 16:00 | June 7, 2016 21:45 | 5h 45m | 934 | 700 |
| 6 | February 4, 2016 13:30 | February 4, 2016 20:30 | 7h | 928 | 1,271 |
| 7 | March 13, 2016 15:00 | March 13, 2016 17:30 | 2h 30m | 694 | 1,081 |
| 8 | February 13, 2016 03:30 | February 13, 2016 06:30 | 3h | 622 | 517 |
| 9 | October 8, 2016 06:00 | October 8, 2016 11:00 | 5h | 595 | 691 |
| 10 | February 25, 2016 08:45 | February 25, 2016 16:00 | 7h 15m | 508 | 597 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 33 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 2016, 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) | 2016 | 4.9 hrs | 1.60 | 84 min | 1.10 |
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 2016; 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, 2016, 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/2016/north-carolina/ashe-county