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2018 Yancey County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Yancey County, NC went without power for an average of 4.3 hours, a total of 8,723 customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 80th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1179th 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 Yancey 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 | October 21, 2018 02:00 | October 22, 2018 22:30 | 1d 20h | 636 | 5,315 |
| 2 | June 29, 2018 11:45 | June 29, 2018 16:15 | 4h 30m | 627 | 1,375 |
| 3 | June 9, 2018 12:15 | June 9, 2018 13:00 | 45m | 621 | 311 |
| 4 | March 2, 2018 00:45 | March 2, 2018 03:15 | 2h 30m | 222 | 446 |
| 5 | March 29, 2018 12:30 | March 29, 2018 14:30 | 2h | 191 | 192 |
| 6 | July 28, 2018 23:15 | July 29, 2018 01:00 | 1h 45m | 58 | 87 |
| 7 | April 13, 2018 14:15 | April 13, 2018 16:15 | 2h | 52 | 104 |
| 8 | April 4, 2018 07:45 | April 4, 2018 10:45 | 3h | 41 | 103 |
| 9 | September 9, 2018 12:30 | September 9, 2018 15:45 | 3h 15m | 40 | 91 |
| 10 | February 16, 2018 18:45 | February 16, 2018 22:15 | 3h 30m | 20 | 70 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 5 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 Yancey 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 |
| French Broad Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 2,023 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. Yancey County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Yancey 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/yancey-county