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2020 Yancey County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Yancey County, NC went without power for an average of 30.4 hours, a total of 62K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 275th 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 Yancey 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 | August 6, 2020 16:00 | August 8, 2020 20:15 | 2d 4h | 7,889 | 34K |
| 2 | June 3, 2020 17:45 | June 4, 2020 22:45 | 1d 5h | 642 | 441 |
| 3 | July 21, 2020 07:30 | July 22, 2020 01:00 | 17h 30m | 583 | 1,559 |
| 4 | January 2, 2020 15:45 | January 4, 2020 19:15 | 2d 3h | 532 | 1,420 |
| 5 | January 10, 2020 20:15 | January 11, 2020 21:45 | 1d 1h | 462 | 480 |
| 6 | July 17, 2020 16:00 | July 18, 2020 20:30 | 1d 4h | 411 | 870 |
| 7 | December 3, 2020 08:00 | December 3, 2020 16:15 | 8h 15m | 224 | 789 |
| 8 | January 12, 2020 07:15 | January 13, 2020 21:45 | 1d 14h | 196 | 565 |
| 9 | March 17, 2020 10:00 | March 19, 2020 14:00 | 2d 4h | 170 | 452 |
| 10 | September 28, 2020 23:15 | September 29, 2020 00:45 | 1h 30m | 131 | 166 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 13 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 Yancey 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Energy Progress - (NC) | 2020 | 5.2 hrs | 1.81 | 2.3 hrs | 1.37 |
| French Broad Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 2,023 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. Yancey County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Yancey 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/yancey-county