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2024 Alleghany County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Alleghany County, NC went without power for an average of 52.3 hours, a total of 398K customer-hours (North Carolina average 66.1 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 191st of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Alleghany County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 27, 2024 14:00 | October 10, 2024 23:45 | 13d 9h | 4,295 | 391K |
| 2 | September 27, 2024 00:45 | September 27, 2024 11:00 | 10h 15m | 424 | 1,971 |
| 3 | September 26, 2024 20:30 | September 26, 2024 23:45 | 3h 15m | 371 | 365 |
| 4 | December 5, 2024 10:00 | December 5, 2024 14:30 | 4h 30m | 330 | 334 |
| 5 | November 29, 2024 00:45 | November 29, 2024 05:45 | 5h | 214 | 590 |
| 6 | July 22, 2024 14:15 | July 22, 2024 16:00 | 1h 45m | 138 | 242 |
| 7 | October 24, 2024 19:30 | October 24, 2024 22:00 | 2h 30m | 118 | 149 |
| 8 | September 11, 2024 12:30 | September 11, 2024 13:15 | 45m | 112 | 56 |
| 9 | November 12, 2024 17:30 | November 12, 2024 19:45 | 2h 15m | 102 | 204 |
| 10 | June 6, 2024 14:00 | June 6, 2024 15:00 | 1h | 100 | 49 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 10 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 2024, 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) | 2024 | 100.6 hrs | 3.32 | 1.5 hrs | 1.26 |
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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/north-carolina/alleghany-county