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2020 Ashe County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Ashe County, NC went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 24K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 92nd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2519th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Ashe County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 18, 2020 00:45 | September 18, 2020 02:15 | 1h 30m | 1,551 | 1,165 |
| 2 | October 7, 2020 16:30 | October 7, 2020 16:45 | 15m | 849 | 212 |
| 3 | September 15, 2020 23:45 | September 16, 2020 01:45 | 2h | 842 | 1,124 |
| 4 | April 8, 2020 23:00 | April 9, 2020 03:00 | 4h | 836 | 853 |
| 5 | July 21, 2020 18:30 | July 21, 2020 23:30 | 5h | 825 | 834 |
| 6 | January 12, 2020 00:15 | January 12, 2020 07:15 | 7h | 726 | 1,135 |
| 7 | November 2, 2020 04:00 | November 2, 2020 16:30 | 12h 30m | 607 | 1,481 |
| 8 | March 16, 2020 23:00 | March 17, 2020 00:45 | 1h 45m | 568 | 853 |
| 9 | March 17, 2020 16:30 | March 17, 2020 23:30 | 7h | 509 | 575 |
| 10 | April 2, 2020 09:45 | April 2, 2020 17:15 | 7h 30m | 427 | 1,054 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 27 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 2020, 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) | 2020 | 75 min | 1.02 | 69 min | 0.97 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 91% of North Carolina's customers in 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/north-carolina/ashe-county