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2018 Ashe County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Ashe County, NC went without power for an average of 8.0 hours, a total of 139K customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 74th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 693rd of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Ashe County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 15, 2018 10:30 | November 17, 2018 23:30 | 2d 13h | 5,903 | 108K |
| 2 | March 12, 2018 11:30 | March 13, 2018 02:00 | 14h 30m | 1,042 | 6,008 |
| 3 | November 24, 2018 08:00 | November 25, 2018 00:45 | 16h 45m | 587 | 1,130 |
| 4 | September 24, 2018 02:45 | September 24, 2018 06:45 | 4h | 556 | 1,790 |
| 5 | April 17, 2018 04:15 | April 17, 2018 23:30 | 19h 15m | 550 | 2,030 |
| 6 | September 16, 2018 10:00 | September 17, 2018 17:30 | 1d 7h | 368 | 2,221 |
| 7 | March 1, 2018 23:30 | March 3, 2018 16:30 | 1d 17h | 354 | 2,263 |
| 8 | March 25, 2018 07:45 | March 25, 2018 16:30 | 8h 45m | 308 | 926 |
| 9 | June 8, 2018 11:45 | June 8, 2018 16:45 | 5h | 305 | 251 |
| 10 | March 20, 2018 17:45 | March 21, 2018 01:00 | 7h 15m | 282 | 550 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 22 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 2018, 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) | 2018 | 5.7 hrs | 1.87 | 76 min | 0.96 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 82% of North Carolina's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/north-carolina/ashe-county