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2024 Yancey County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Yancey County, NC went without power for an average of 2300.0 hours, a total of 4.7M customer-hours (North Carolina average 66.1 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 4th 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 Yancey 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 26, 2024 02:30 | October 18, 2024 18:00 | 22d 15h | 14,335 | 3.7M |
| 2 | October 18, 2024 19:00 | October 31, 2024 01:45 | 12d 6h | 5,562 | 716K |
| 3 | January 15, 2024 22:15 | January 19, 2024 18:45 | 3d 20h | 1,573 | 20K |
| 4 | October 31, 2024 14:45 | December 19, 2024 09:30 | 48d 18h | 1,093 | 183K |
| 5 | May 26, 2024 21:15 | May 27, 2024 16:30 | 19h 15m | 590 | 874 |
| 6 | January 9, 2024 05:30 | January 11, 2024 11:45 | 2d 6h | 570 | 2,262 |
| 7 | May 10, 2024 23:30 | May 11, 2024 01:30 | 2h | 482 | 401 |
| 8 | January 12, 2024 21:00 | January 13, 2024 19:45 | 22h 45m | 455 | 342 |
| 9 | April 16, 2024 12:00 | April 16, 2024 19:45 | 7h 45m | 427 | 200 |
| 10 | June 24, 2024 03:45 | June 24, 2024 07:45 | 4h | 366 | 739 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 18 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Yancey 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Energy Progress - (NC) | 2024 | 17.2 hrs | 1.70 | 2.2 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 2024; 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, 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/yancey-county