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2017 Wilkes County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Wilkes County, NC went without power for an average of 116.4 hours, a total of 936K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.0 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 9th 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 Wilkes 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 20:30 | October 28, 2017 07:15 | 4d 10h | 25,695 | 839K |
| 2 | March 10, 2017 13:45 | March 10, 2017 14:00 | 15m | 2,567 | 642 |
| 3 | October 29, 2017 00:45 | October 29, 2017 12:45 | 12h | 2,237 | 2,445 |
| 4 | December 8, 2017 18:00 | December 11, 2017 01:30 | 2d 7h | 2,128 | 25K |
| 5 | May 27, 2017 19:30 | May 27, 2017 22:30 | 3h | 1,705 | 1,282 |
| 6 | October 8, 2017 23:00 | October 10, 2017 00:45 | 1d 1h | 1,424 | 6,577 |
| 7 | February 4, 2017 02:30 | February 4, 2017 09:15 | 6h 45m | 1,254 | 5,515 |
| 8 | September 18, 2017 21:30 | September 19, 2017 00:00 | 2h 30m | 1,072 | 1,120 |
| 9 | May 1, 2017 16:15 | May 2, 2017 03:15 | 11h | 1,037 | 2,427 |
| 10 | March 3, 2017 21:15 | March 4, 2017 01:15 | 4h | 991 | 870 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 61 reached 100+ customers, 9 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Wilkes 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 Carolinas, LLC | 2017 | 8.8 hrs | 1.52 | 3.1 hrs | 1.11 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2017 | 3.0 hrs | 1.26 | 1.6 hrs | 1.02 |
| Blue Ridge Elec Member Corp - (NC) | 2017 | 3.6 hrs | 1.52 | 73 min | 0.99 |
| Surry-Yadkin Elec Member Corp | 2017 | 4.9 hrs | 1.04 | 2.4 hrs | 0.93 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 8,042 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. Wilkes County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wilkes 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/wilkes-county