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2019 Wilkes County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Wilkes County, NC went without power for an average of 17.4 hours, a total of 140K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 271st 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 Wilkes 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 13, 2019 07:15 | January 15, 2019 21:45 | 2d 14h | 3,917 | 45K |
| 2 | January 18, 2019 07:15 | January 18, 2019 10:30 | 3h 15m | 2,180 | 4,343 |
| 3 | April 26, 2019 18:15 | April 28, 2019 01:00 | 1d 6h | 1,932 | 16K |
| 4 | February 4, 2019 11:30 | February 4, 2019 14:45 | 3h 15m | 1,227 | 1,876 |
| 5 | September 21, 2019 22:30 | September 21, 2019 23:30 | 1h | 1,218 | 914 |
| 6 | July 6, 2019 13:00 | July 8, 2019 00:30 | 1d 11h | 1,119 | 3,153 |
| 7 | August 13, 2019 18:30 | August 14, 2019 10:45 | 16h 15m | 1,042 | 1,964 |
| 8 | September 30, 2019 21:00 | September 30, 2019 23:45 | 2h 45m | 978 | 1,255 |
| 9 | January 6, 2019 01:00 | January 6, 2019 03:30 | 2h 30m | 939 | 1,175 |
| 10 | August 13, 2019 03:30 | August 13, 2019 12:45 | 9h 15m | 901 | 3,383 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 71 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Wilkes 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 |
| Surry-Yadkin Elec Member Corp | 2018 | 8.0 hrs | 1.89 | 2.5 hrs | 1.05 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 8,042 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. Wilkes County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wilkes 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/wilkes-county