County annual report · FIPS 37011
2017 Avery County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Avery County, NC went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.0 hours). That ranks 87th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2167th 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 Avery 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 | December 8, 2017 18:30 | December 10, 2017 15:45 | 1d 21h | 1,194 | 13K |
| 2 | November 26, 2017 09:15 | November 26, 2017 11:15 | 2h | 83 | 166 |
| 3 | October 19, 2017 15:15 | October 19, 2017 17:15 | 2h | 77 | 137 |
| 4 | November 23, 2017 16:45 | November 23, 2017 18:15 | 1h 30m | 42 | 63 |
| 5 | July 27, 2017 01:30 | July 27, 2017 07:00 | 5h 30m | 27 | 71 |
| 6 | April 7, 2017 03:00 | April 7, 2017 04:45 | 1h 45m | 25 | 39 |
| 7 | December 13, 2017 08:00 | December 13, 2017 11:00 | 3h | 22 | 66 |
| 8 | September 29, 2017 17:45 | September 29, 2017 22:15 | 4h 30m | 21 | 49 |
| 9 | September 12, 2017 08:15 | September 12, 2017 17:15 | 9h | 16 | 92 |
| 10 | June 4, 2017 18:00 | June 4, 2017 19:45 | 1h 45m | 15 | 23 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 1 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Energy Progress - (NC) | 2017 | 3.2 hrs | 1.52 | 2.7 hrs | 1.47 |
| Blue Ridge Elec Member Corp - (NC) | 2017 | 3.6 hrs | 1.52 | 73 min | 0.99 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/avery-county