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2019 Alexander County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Alexander County, NC went without power for an average of 11.1 hours, a total of 76K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 483rd of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Alexander County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 30, 2019 15:00 | May 31, 2019 01:15 | 10h 15m | 4,679 | 13K |
| 2 | January 9, 2019 12:30 | January 9, 2019 20:30 | 8h | 4,601 | 3,505 |
| 3 | August 21, 2019 19:00 | August 23, 2019 05:45 | 1d 10h | 2,068 | 13K |
| 4 | January 13, 2019 06:30 | January 15, 2019 01:00 | 1d 18h | 1,976 | 13K |
| 5 | September 30, 2019 22:00 | October 1, 2019 00:45 | 2h 45m | 1,109 | 663 |
| 6 | January 11, 2019 13:15 | January 11, 2019 15:30 | 2h 15m | 1,091 | 2,455 |
| 7 | May 6, 2019 10:45 | May 7, 2019 02:00 | 15h 15m | 1,084 | 3,563 |
| 8 | August 13, 2019 20:00 | August 14, 2019 21:30 | 1d 1h | 1,001 | 2,175 |
| 9 | May 4, 2019 19:45 | May 5, 2019 05:00 | 9h 15m | 717 | 866 |
| 10 | June 9, 2019 05:15 | June 11, 2019 00:30 | 1d 19h | 617 | 5,128 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 31 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Alexander County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 | 2018 | 13.1 hrs | 1.81 | 3.7 hrs | 1.19 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2018 | 10.9 hrs | 1.77 | 2.0 hrs | 1.07 |
| 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 90% of North Carolina's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 6,903 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. Alexander County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Alexander County, NC annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/north-carolina/alexander-county