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2023 Alleghany County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Alleghany County, NC went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.6 hours). That ranks 85th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2363rd 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 Alleghany 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 | March 2, 2023 21:45 | March 3, 2023 00:15 | 2h 30m | 3,733 | 3,362 |
| 2 | February 28, 2023 04:15 | February 28, 2023 10:15 | 6h | 1,189 | 534 |
| 3 | April 1, 2023 18:15 | April 2, 2023 04:45 | 10h 30m | 993 | 1,849 |
| 4 | March 4, 2023 03:30 | March 4, 2023 04:45 | 1h 15m | 692 | 817 |
| 5 | June 9, 2023 16:30 | June 9, 2023 23:15 | 6h 45m | 677 | 1,710 |
| 6 | March 25, 2023 22:00 | March 26, 2023 01:15 | 3h 15m | 468 | 362 |
| 7 | June 21, 2023 21:15 | June 21, 2023 21:45 | 30m | 260 | 130 |
| 8 | April 27, 2023 14:15 | April 27, 2023 15:00 | 45m | 217 | 163 |
| 9 | January 30, 2023 18:30 | January 30, 2023 19:15 | 45m | 194 | 97 |
| 10 | June 12, 2023 06:45 | June 12, 2023 08:15 | 1h 30m | 179 | 136 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 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 Alleghany 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 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, 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/alleghany-county