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2021 Gates County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Gates County, NC went without power for an average of 6.1 hours, a total of 33K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.3 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1134th 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 Gates 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 | April 2, 2021 13:45 | April 2, 2021 17:45 | 4h | 1,438 | 2,855 |
| 2 | February 27, 2021 02:30 | February 27, 2021 04:45 | 2h 15m | 1,249 | 1,112 |
| 3 | January 24, 2021 20:30 | January 24, 2021 21:30 | 1h | 805 | 803 |
| 4 | January 28, 2021 05:15 | January 28, 2021 20:30 | 15h 15m | 805 | 1,486 |
| 5 | June 21, 2021 12:15 | June 21, 2021 17:00 | 4h 45m | 805 | 608 |
| 6 | July 10, 2021 04:00 | July 11, 2021 18:00 | 1d 14h | 501 | 16K |
| 7 | January 25, 2021 17:15 | January 25, 2021 22:30 | 5h 15m | 482 | 2,516 |
| 8 | July 8, 2021 19:30 | July 9, 2021 13:30 | 18h | 458 | 862 |
| 9 | August 1, 2021 00:45 | August 2, 2021 14:00 | 1d 13h | 427 | 3,994 |
| 10 | March 2, 2021 20:15 | March 2, 2021 20:45 | 30m | 294 | 146 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 14 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 Gates 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roanoke Electric Member Corp | 2021 | 3.1 hrs | 1.20 | 1.8 hrs | 0.89 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,460 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. Gates County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Gates 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/gates-county