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2022 Alleghany County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Alleghany County, NC went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 26K customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 80th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1803rd of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Alleghany County, 2022
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, 2022 18:00 | August 17, 2022 19:15 | 1h 15m | 2,272 | 569 |
| 2 | May 7, 2022 00:15 | May 7, 2022 05:30 | 5h 15m | 2,228 | 3,658 |
| 3 | March 24, 2022 03:00 | March 24, 2022 04:00 | 1h | 1,557 | 1,557 |
| 4 | May 3, 2022 14:00 | May 3, 2022 16:00 | 2h | 1,346 | 1,105 |
| 5 | December 23, 2022 10:15 | December 23, 2022 18:30 | 8h 15m | 1,267 | 1,406 |
| 6 | December 24, 2022 09:45 | December 24, 2022 22:45 | 13h | 865 | 2,886 |
| 7 | June 23, 2022 09:45 | June 23, 2022 13:15 | 3h 30m | 822 | 639 |
| 8 | September 30, 2022 22:30 | October 1, 2022 20:15 | 21h 45m | 673 | 2,216 |
| 9 | March 12, 2022 13:30 | March 13, 2022 03:30 | 14h | 633 | 1,725 |
| 10 | March 7, 2022 15:00 | March 7, 2022 21:30 | 6h 30m | 477 | 608 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 25 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Alleghany County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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) | 2022 | 2.0 hrs | 1.46 | 79 min | 1.08 |
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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 7,617 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. Alleghany County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Alleghany County, NC annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/north-carolina/alleghany-county