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2024 Ashe County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Ashe County, NC went without power for an average of 131.0 hours, a total of 2.3M customer-hours (North Carolina average 66.1 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 74th 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 Ashe 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 14, 2024 02:15 | 16d 12h | 22,258 | 2.3M |
| 2 | December 5, 2024 08:45 | December 6, 2024 01:30 | 16h 45m | 2,191 | 6,464 |
| 3 | December 30, 2024 17:00 | December 30, 2024 18:30 | 1h 30m | 1,612 | 1,226 |
| 4 | September 25, 2024 22:30 | September 26, 2024 06:30 | 8h | 1,379 | 1,139 |
| 5 | October 18, 2024 13:45 | October 18, 2024 20:15 | 6h 30m | 1,325 | 1,057 |
| 6 | September 26, 2024 14:30 | September 26, 2024 23:45 | 9h 15m | 1,316 | 1,191 |
| 7 | May 18, 2024 23:00 | May 19, 2024 00:45 | 1h 45m | 1,313 | 2,298 |
| 8 | November 22, 2024 12:45 | November 22, 2024 17:15 | 4h 30m | 1,212 | 2,633 |
| 9 | September 27, 2024 00:45 | September 27, 2024 11:00 | 10h 15m | 875 | 3,985 |
| 10 | December 16, 2024 16:15 | December 16, 2024 23:30 | 7h 15m | 849 | 738 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 38 reached 100+ customers, 8 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 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 ÷ 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, 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/ashe-county