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2019 Alleghany County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Alleghany County, NC went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 87th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2093rd 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 Alleghany 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 | August 5, 2019 15:30 | August 5, 2019 16:15 | 45m | 1,309 | 655 |
| 2 | February 24, 2019 18:15 | February 25, 2019 06:15 | 12h | 1,226 | 1,346 |
| 3 | September 2, 2019 18:15 | September 2, 2019 19:30 | 1h 15m | 1,195 | 908 |
| 4 | April 14, 2019 20:00 | April 15, 2019 05:00 | 9h | 693 | 596 |
| 5 | December 5, 2019 02:15 | December 5, 2019 21:45 | 19h 30m | 660 | 1,127 |
| 6 | January 13, 2019 08:15 | January 14, 2019 03:00 | 18h 45m | 542 | 2,363 |
| 7 | April 26, 2019 20:45 | April 27, 2019 07:30 | 10h 45m | 471 | 2,124 |
| 8 | October 31, 2019 18:45 | October 31, 2019 23:15 | 4h 30m | 286 | 652 |
| 9 | October 28, 2019 13:00 | October 28, 2019 13:30 | 30m | 213 | 107 |
| 10 | March 22, 2019 23:00 | March 23, 2019 01:15 | 2h 15m | 211 | 217 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 12 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Alleghany 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 7,617 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. Alleghany County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Alleghany 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/alleghany-county