County annual report · FIPS 37011
2016 Avery County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Avery County, NC went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 2,768 customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 92nd worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 2199th 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 Avery 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 8, 2016 22:45 | July 11, 2016 02:00 | 2d 3h | 453 | 2,231 |
| 2 | April 3, 2016 04:45 | April 3, 2016 09:30 | 4h 45m | 33 | 141 |
| 3 | August 9, 2016 05:30 | August 9, 2016 11:00 | 5h 30m | 32 | 176 |
| 4 | October 9, 2016 08:45 | October 9, 2016 12:45 | 4h | 32 | 94 |
| 5 | April 5, 2016 18:30 | April 5, 2016 19:45 | 1h 15m | 14 | 14 |
| 6 | May 26, 2016 14:00 | May 26, 2016 15:00 | 1h | 14 | 14 |
| 7 | August 21, 2016 00:30 | August 21, 2016 03:15 | 2h 45m | 14 | 24 |
| 8 | October 9, 2016 02:15 | October 9, 2016 04:30 | 2h 15m | 4 | 7 |
| 9 | June 15, 2016 11:30 | June 15, 2016 13:45 | 2h 15m | 3 | 6 |
| 10 | June 17, 2016 03:00 | June 17, 2016 04:15 | 1h 15m | 3 | 3 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 1 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Avery 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Energy Progress - (NC) | 2016 | 63.5 hrs | 3.55 | 3.0 hrs | 1.63 |
| Blue Ridge Elec Member Corp - (NC) | 2016 | 4.9 hrs | 1.60 | 84 min | 1.10 |
| 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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 18,986 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. Avery County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Avery 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/avery-county