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2016 Yancey County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Yancey County, NC went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 6,952 customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 82nd worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 896th 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 Yancey 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 | December 8, 2016 16:00 | December 8, 2016 17:30 | 1h 30m | 624 | 936 |
| 2 | November 30, 2016 11:30 | November 30, 2016 13:15 | 1h 45m | 225 | 394 |
| 3 | October 8, 2016 22:30 | October 9, 2016 02:45 | 4h 15m | 224 | 840 |
| 4 | October 9, 2016 09:00 | October 9, 2016 14:00 | 5h | 224 | 516 |
| 5 | February 19, 2016 15:45 | February 20, 2016 02:45 | 11h | 223 | 2,453 |
| 6 | July 8, 2016 02:00 | July 8, 2016 05:00 | 3h | 187 | 191 |
| 7 | April 3, 2016 04:15 | April 4, 2016 17:15 | 1d 13h | 174 | 648 |
| 8 | December 19, 2016 18:45 | December 20, 2016 06:15 | 11h 30m | 43 | 489 |
| 9 | August 15, 2016 18:45 | August 15, 2016 20:00 | 1h 15m | 36 | 45 |
| 10 | November 16, 2016 13:00 | November 16, 2016 15:00 | 2h | 16 | 32 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 7 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 Yancey 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 |
| French Broad Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 2,023 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. Yancey County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Yancey 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/yancey-county