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2019 Ashe County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Ashe County, NC went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 53K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 79th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1641st 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 Ashe 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 | January 10, 2019 11:30 | January 10, 2019 12:15 | 45m | 2,817 | 1,409 |
| 2 | July 6, 2019 00:00 | July 6, 2019 10:30 | 10h 30m | 1,995 | 3,992 |
| 3 | June 9, 2019 00:45 | June 9, 2019 07:45 | 7h | 1,760 | 1,232 |
| 4 | February 24, 2019 14:30 | February 25, 2019 21:45 | 1d 7h | 1,467 | 8,109 |
| 5 | December 5, 2019 02:00 | December 6, 2019 03:30 | 1d 1h | 1,226 | 5,621 |
| 6 | July 8, 2019 04:15 | July 8, 2019 05:00 | 45m | 1,156 | 867 |
| 7 | April 26, 2019 20:15 | April 27, 2019 12:45 | 16h 30m | 1,113 | 2,309 |
| 8 | January 20, 2019 16:45 | January 20, 2019 22:00 | 5h 15m | 1,010 | 719 |
| 9 | July 29, 2019 22:00 | July 29, 2019 22:30 | 30m | 963 | 482 |
| 10 | July 12, 2019 07:45 | July 12, 2019 09:00 | 1h 15m | 959 | 304 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 44 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 Ashe 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 ÷ 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, 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/ashe-county