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2023 Ashe County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Ashe County, NC went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 31K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.6 hours). That ranks 86th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2377th 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 Ashe 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 | April 1, 2023 17:30 | April 2, 2023 20:15 | 1d 2h | 1,709 | 7,358 |
| 2 | April 17, 2023 21:45 | April 17, 2023 22:45 | 1h | 1,609 | 806 |
| 3 | February 18, 2023 01:30 | February 18, 2023 08:45 | 7h 15m | 1,375 | 1,703 |
| 4 | June 15, 2023 11:30 | June 15, 2023 14:15 | 2h 45m | 1,217 | 917 |
| 5 | October 15, 2023 02:30 | October 15, 2023 03:30 | 1h | 1,006 | 1,006 |
| 6 | May 16, 2023 23:30 | May 17, 2023 05:45 | 6h 15m | 725 | 741 |
| 7 | February 28, 2023 01:15 | February 28, 2023 19:45 | 18h 30m | 645 | 3,133 |
| 8 | March 25, 2023 20:15 | March 26, 2023 01:15 | 5h | 494 | 409 |
| 9 | March 4, 2023 03:30 | March 4, 2023 14:30 | 11h | 462 | 1,140 |
| 10 | October 26, 2023 13:45 | October 26, 2023 17:15 | 3h 30m | 428 | 264 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 22 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 Ashe 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 ÷ 17,506 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. Ashe County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ashe 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/ashe-county