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2024 Gates County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Gates County, NC went without power for an average of 4.8 hours, a total of 26K customer-hours (North Carolina average 66.1 hours). That ranks 71st worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1662nd 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 Gates 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 | January 9, 2024 20:15 | January 10, 2024 21:30 | 1d 1h | 1,013 | 8,953 |
| 2 | August 8, 2024 19:30 | August 8, 2024 22:00 | 2h 30m | 742 | 1,855 |
| 3 | July 16, 2024 12:00 | July 16, 2024 15:00 | 3h | 693 | 969 |
| 4 | December 7, 2024 08:00 | December 8, 2024 14:30 | 1d 6h | 399 | 5,073 |
| 5 | December 5, 2024 16:30 | December 5, 2024 17:30 | 1h | 245 | 245 |
| 6 | August 24, 2024 22:00 | August 25, 2024 02:30 | 4h 30m | 241 | 1,085 |
| 7 | December 11, 2024 05:15 | December 11, 2024 08:45 | 3h 30m | 214 | 426 |
| 8 | August 18, 2024 11:15 | August 19, 2024 13:00 | 1d 1h | 160 | 1,662 |
| 9 | July 29, 2024 00:15 | July 29, 2024 01:45 | 1h 30m | 142 | 177 |
| 10 | September 27, 2024 10:45 | September 27, 2024 12:00 | 1h 15m | 128 | 96 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 13 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 Gates 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roanoke Electric Member Corp | 2024 | 2.1 hrs | 1.26 | 1.8 hrs | 1.08 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,460 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. Gates County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Gates 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/gates-county