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2021 Alexander County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Alexander County, NC went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.3 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1642nd of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Alexander County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 7, 2021 09:15 | October 7, 2021 09:45 | 30m | 3,397 | 1,699 |
| 2 | September 20, 2021 12:00 | September 20, 2021 15:30 | 3h 30m | 3,394 | 856 |
| 3 | June 8, 2021 19:00 | June 9, 2021 01:45 | 6h 45m | 732 | 820 |
| 4 | August 11, 2021 18:15 | August 11, 2021 21:15 | 3h | 682 | 258 |
| 5 | August 12, 2021 19:45 | August 12, 2021 22:15 | 2h 30m | 676 | 184 |
| 6 | October 26, 2021 13:15 | October 26, 2021 19:45 | 6h 30m | 670 | 581 |
| 7 | September 23, 2021 05:45 | September 23, 2021 07:45 | 2h | 661 | 948 |
| 8 | June 14, 2021 13:15 | June 15, 2021 04:15 | 15h | 660 | 193 |
| 9 | May 26, 2021 15:45 | May 26, 2021 21:45 | 6h | 599 | 805 |
| 10 | July 28, 2021 18:45 | July 28, 2021 20:30 | 1h 45m | 543 | 949 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 30 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Alexander County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 3.5 hrs | 1.20 | 2.5 hrs | 1.10 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2021 | 2.1 hrs | 1.04 | 84 min | 0.90 |
| Blue Ridge Elec Member Corp - (NC) | 2021 | 89 min | 1.04 | 62 min | 0.90 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 92% of North Carolina's customers in 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 6,903 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. Alexander County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Alexander County, NC annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/north-carolina/alexander-county