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2017 Ashe County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Ashe County, NC went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 39K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.0 hours). That ranks 74th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1567th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Ashe County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 23, 2017 11:15 | October 24, 2017 03:30 | 16h 15m | 1,755 | 3,461 |
| 2 | October 23, 2017 07:30 | October 23, 2017 08:45 | 1h 15m | 1,721 | 2,151 |
| 3 | December 5, 2017 19:15 | December 5, 2017 21:30 | 2h 15m | 1,721 | 2,422 |
| 4 | June 25, 2017 15:30 | June 25, 2017 18:00 | 2h 30m | 1,716 | 2,160 |
| 5 | May 25, 2017 19:15 | May 26, 2017 05:15 | 10h | 1,233 | 2,004 |
| 6 | October 8, 2017 23:00 | October 9, 2017 13:15 | 14h 15m | 1,089 | 2,328 |
| 7 | December 14, 2017 02:15 | December 14, 2017 18:15 | 16h | 853 | 2,687 |
| 8 | February 13, 2017 17:00 | February 13, 2017 18:45 | 1h 45m | 601 | 157 |
| 9 | February 11, 2017 06:45 | February 11, 2017 19:45 | 13h | 596 | 1,726 |
| 10 | June 13, 2017 18:45 | June 13, 2017 22:15 | 3h 30m | 550 | 417 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 34 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 2017, 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) | 2017 | 3.6 hrs | 1.52 | 73 min | 0.99 |
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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/north-carolina/ashe-county