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2023 Yancey County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Yancey County, NC went without power for an average of 32.0 hours, a total of 65K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.6 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 214th 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 Yancey 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 16:15 | April 4, 2023 06:15 | 2d 14h | 4,369 | 28K |
| 2 | March 25, 2023 08:45 | March 25, 2023 18:00 | 9h 15m | 1,611 | 1,534 |
| 3 | August 15, 2023 05:15 | August 15, 2023 19:15 | 14h | 1,207 | 1,705 |
| 4 | April 8, 2023 00:45 | April 8, 2023 12:45 | 12h | 923 | 5,593 |
| 5 | August 7, 2023 13:00 | August 9, 2023 03:45 | 1d 14h | 754 | 4,016 |
| 6 | May 1, 2023 22:00 | May 3, 2023 01:15 | 1d 3h | 451 | 2,475 |
| 7 | May 3, 2023 21:15 | May 4, 2023 01:00 | 3h 45m | 400 | 371 |
| 8 | April 30, 2023 22:15 | May 1, 2023 05:45 | 7h 30m | 349 | 729 |
| 9 | August 3, 2023 10:45 | August 3, 2023 14:15 | 3h 30m | 341 | 262 |
| 10 | July 24, 2023 21:15 | July 25, 2023 00:15 | 3h | 271 | 608 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 23 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 Yancey 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 Progress - (NC) | 2023 | 3.7 hrs | 1.47 | 2.4 hrs | 1.22 |
| French Broad Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 2,023 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. Yancey County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Yancey 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/yancey-county