County annual report · FIPS 37011
2018 Avery County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Avery County, NC went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 39K customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 87th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1851st 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 Avery 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 | April 5, 2018 21:15 | April 6, 2018 14:30 | 17h 15m | 1,198 | 20K |
| 2 | June 11, 2018 20:45 | June 11, 2018 23:30 | 2h 45m | 1,146 | 764 |
| 3 | December 22, 2018 01:15 | December 22, 2018 04:30 | 3h 15m | 550 | 1,788 |
| 4 | November 24, 2018 09:15 | November 25, 2018 17:30 | 1d 8h | 463 | 503 |
| 5 | December 9, 2018 08:15 | December 10, 2018 05:15 | 21h | 376 | 2,767 |
| 6 | October 26, 2018 07:00 | October 26, 2018 12:45 | 5h 45m | 372 | 1,305 |
| 7 | April 18, 2018 05:30 | April 18, 2018 09:15 | 3h 45m | 371 | 1,322 |
| 8 | November 15, 2018 11:00 | November 15, 2018 17:45 | 6h 45m | 242 | 852 |
| 9 | October 29, 2018 08:30 | October 29, 2018 11:45 | 3h 15m | 214 | 543 |
| 10 | October 21, 2018 01:30 | October 22, 2018 16:15 | 1d 14h | 172 | 3,056 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 15 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 Avery 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Energy Progress - (NC) | 2018 | 43.0 hrs | 2.71 | 2.6 hrs | 1.33 |
| Blue Ridge Elec Member Corp - (NC) | 2018 | 5.7 hrs | 1.87 | 76 min | 0.96 |
| 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 82% of North Carolina's customers in 2018; 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, 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/avery-county