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2017 Gates County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Gates County, NC went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.0 hours). That ranks 72nd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1531st 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 Gates 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 | March 1, 2017 19:30 | March 2, 2017 01:15 | 5h 45m | 875 | 1,262 |
| 2 | August 23, 2017 20:00 | August 24, 2017 05:45 | 9h 45m | 855 | 656 |
| 3 | August 13, 2017 15:30 | August 13, 2017 17:30 | 2h | 850 | 1,208 |
| 4 | August 29, 2017 10:00 | August 29, 2017 15:15 | 5h 15m | 404 | 1,288 |
| 5 | May 23, 2017 22:00 | May 23, 2017 23:30 | 1h 30m | 372 | 558 |
| 6 | March 15, 2017 14:30 | March 15, 2017 16:30 | 2h | 354 | 158 |
| 7 | July 23, 2017 23:15 | July 24, 2017 08:30 | 9h 15m | 300 | 1,274 |
| 8 | August 13, 2017 04:45 | August 13, 2017 10:15 | 5h 30m | 247 | 1,293 |
| 9 | October 26, 2017 19:45 | October 26, 2017 20:30 | 45m | 214 | 96 |
| 10 | April 13, 2017 17:00 | April 13, 2017 18:00 | 1h | 202 | 52 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 18 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 Gates 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roanoke Electric Member Corp | 2017 | 3.3 hrs | 1.51 | 2.9 hrs | 1.36 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,460 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. Gates County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Gates 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/gates-county