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2022 Gates County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Gates County, NC went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 89th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2169th 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 Gates 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 | January 3, 2022 15:00 | January 3, 2022 22:00 | 7h | 1,502 | 1,265 |
| 2 | April 26, 2022 22:15 | April 27, 2022 12:45 | 14h 30m | 1,310 | 1,994 |
| 3 | June 17, 2022 23:45 | June 18, 2022 13:45 | 14h | 501 | 1,515 |
| 4 | September 30, 2022 15:15 | October 1, 2022 08:15 | 17h | 478 | 1,218 |
| 5 | February 14, 2022 19:45 | February 14, 2022 20:30 | 45m | 448 | 117 |
| 6 | April 16, 2022 17:00 | April 16, 2022 17:30 | 30m | 367 | 117 |
| 7 | March 20, 2022 02:00 | March 20, 2022 13:45 | 11h 45m | 259 | 2,491 |
| 8 | October 9, 2022 06:00 | October 9, 2022 08:15 | 2h 15m | 212 | 403 |
| 9 | December 23, 2022 15:30 | December 24, 2022 17:30 | 1d 2h | 191 | 1,448 |
| 10 | March 30, 2022 16:00 | March 30, 2022 19:45 | 3h 45m | 147 | 51 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 11 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roanoke Electric Member Corp | 2022 | 4.0 hrs | 1.87 | 2.3 hrs | 1.56 |
| 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 2022; 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, 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/gates-county