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2019 Watauga County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Watauga County, NC went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 47K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 83rd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1812th 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 Watauga 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 2, 2019 22:45 | August 3, 2019 03:15 | 4h 30m | 4,624 | 7,091 |
| 2 | July 12, 2019 07:45 | July 12, 2019 08:15 | 30m | 1,883 | 798 |
| 3 | June 4, 2019 10:00 | June 4, 2019 14:00 | 4h | 1,054 | 1,714 |
| 4 | December 4, 2019 23:45 | December 5, 2019 23:45 | 1d | 992 | 6,719 |
| 5 | November 4, 2019 01:45 | November 4, 2019 03:00 | 1h 15m | 927 | 825 |
| 6 | February 24, 2019 17:45 | February 25, 2019 09:45 | 16h | 740 | 2,579 |
| 7 | June 22, 2019 07:00 | June 22, 2019 08:15 | 1h 15m | 704 | 880 |
| 8 | July 6, 2019 05:00 | July 6, 2019 06:30 | 1h 30m | 694 | 796 |
| 9 | June 9, 2019 00:30 | June 10, 2019 00:00 | 23h 30m | 546 | 4,342 |
| 10 | August 1, 2019 19:30 | August 1, 2019 22:15 | 2h 45m | 506 | 970 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 37 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 Watauga 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 |
| New River Light & Power Co | 2018 | 19 min | 0.27 | 19 min | 0.27 |
| 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 90% of North Carolina's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 18,248 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. Watauga County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Watauga 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/watauga-county