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2023 Alexander County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Alexander County, NC went without power for an average of 10.8 hours, a total of 75K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.6 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 786th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Alexander County, 2023
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 7, 2023 18:15 | August 9, 2023 20:00 | 2d 1h | 2,032 | 31K |
| 2 | January 30, 2023 16:30 | January 30, 2023 22:15 | 5h 45m | 1,292 | 338 |
| 3 | May 17, 2023 01:30 | May 17, 2023 11:00 | 9h 30m | 1,245 | 5,193 |
| 4 | January 14, 2023 04:00 | January 14, 2023 05:45 | 1h 45m | 736 | 1,288 |
| 5 | August 3, 2023 14:45 | August 3, 2023 20:45 | 6h | 690 | 995 |
| 6 | July 16, 2023 02:15 | July 16, 2023 09:15 | 7h | 651 | 2,523 |
| 7 | February 12, 2023 14:30 | February 13, 2023 05:45 | 15h 15m | 640 | 3,479 |
| 8 | June 20, 2023 04:30 | June 20, 2023 17:45 | 13h 15m | 620 | 4,202 |
| 9 | October 22, 2023 20:45 | October 23, 2023 07:30 | 10h 45m | 583 | 3,172 |
| 10 | April 1, 2023 22:00 | April 2, 2023 17:15 | 19h 15m | 537 | 1,519 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 36 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 Alexander County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 5.0 hrs | 1.68 | 3.3 hrs | 1.52 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2023 | 3.7 hrs | 1.64 | 2.2 hrs | 1.37 |
| Blue Ridge Elec Member Corp - (NC) | 2023 | 81 min | 1.08 | 69 min | 0.99 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of North Carolina's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 6,903 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. Alexander County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Alexander County, NC annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/north-carolina/alexander-county