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2022 Wilkes County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Wilkes County, NC went without power for an average of 23.3 hours, a total of 188K customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 273rd 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 Wilkes 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 | December 23, 2022 03:00 | December 25, 2022 02:15 | 1d 23h | 3,392 | 53K |
| 2 | February 3, 2022 12:00 | February 3, 2022 17:15 | 5h 15m | 1,977 | 4,844 |
| 3 | June 3, 2022 17:00 | June 3, 2022 19:45 | 2h 45m | 1,834 | 1,143 |
| 4 | July 1, 2022 15:45 | July 2, 2022 04:30 | 12h 45m | 1,725 | 11K |
| 5 | May 23, 2022 23:30 | May 24, 2022 18:15 | 18h 45m | 1,654 | 3,736 |
| 6 | August 7, 2022 03:15 | August 7, 2022 07:45 | 4h 30m | 1,623 | 6,431 |
| 7 | September 26, 2022 18:30 | September 26, 2022 21:30 | 3h | 1,545 | 414 |
| 8 | June 16, 2022 20:30 | June 18, 2022 19:45 | 1d 23h | 1,299 | 5,265 |
| 9 | July 18, 2022 20:00 | July 18, 2022 23:30 | 3h 30m | 1,285 | 2,302 |
| 10 | March 12, 2022 09:15 | March 13, 2022 07:45 | 22h 30m | 1,263 | 4,552 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 76 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Wilkes 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC | 2022 | 7.1 hrs | 1.93 | 3.1 hrs | 1.35 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2022 | 4.9 hrs | 1.87 | 2.2 hrs | 1.37 |
| Blue Ridge Elec Member Corp - (NC) | 2022 | 2.0 hrs | 1.46 | 79 min | 1.08 |
| Surry-Yadkin Elec Member Corp | 2022 | 9.8 hrs | 2.50 | 2.7 hrs | 1.34 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 8,042 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. Wilkes County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wilkes 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/wilkes-county