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2021 Ashe County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Ashe County, NC went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 30K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.3 hours). That ranks 84th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2355th 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 Ashe 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 | August 17, 2021 12:45 | August 18, 2021 22:00 | 1d 9h | 1,241 | 9,512 |
| 2 | February 11, 2021 14:15 | February 11, 2021 14:30 | 15m | 1,205 | 301 |
| 3 | September 15, 2021 18:45 | September 15, 2021 20:15 | 1h 30m | 1,017 | 523 |
| 4 | January 12, 2021 15:30 | January 12, 2021 17:00 | 1h 30m | 794 | 219 |
| 5 | January 28, 2021 10:15 | January 28, 2021 11:30 | 1h 15m | 566 | 568 |
| 6 | January 18, 2021 20:00 | January 19, 2021 02:00 | 6h | 544 | 1,445 |
| 7 | June 10, 2021 20:45 | June 10, 2021 23:00 | 2h 15m | 493 | 385 |
| 8 | August 16, 2021 14:15 | August 16, 2021 14:30 | 15m | 485 | 121 |
| 9 | August 13, 2021 17:45 | August 14, 2021 02:00 | 8h 15m | 433 | 791 |
| 10 | July 10, 2021 23:30 | July 11, 2021 01:45 | 2h 15m | 427 | 746 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 31 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 Ashe 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 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, 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/ashe-county