County annual report · FIPS 37003
2025 Alexander County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Alexander County, NC went without power for an average of 5.0 hours, a total of 34K customer-hours (North Carolina average 9.8 hours). That ranks 59th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1500th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Alexander County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 23, 2025 08:45 | May 23, 2025 12:00 | 3h 15m | 1,226 | 1,305 |
| 2 | October 29, 2025 10:15 | October 29, 2025 21:00 | 10h 45m | 862 | 2,658 |
| 3 | January 22, 2025 21:00 | January 22, 2025 22:00 | 1h | 753 | 753 |
| 4 | May 14, 2025 12:30 | May 14, 2025 22:00 | 9h 30m | 694 | 216 |
| 5 | January 10, 2025 21:45 | January 11, 2025 08:00 | 10h 15m | 677 | 1,479 |
| 6 | January 13, 2025 17:00 | January 13, 2025 17:15 | 15m | 677 | 169 |
| 7 | June 23, 2025 14:15 | June 23, 2025 21:00 | 6h 45m | 655 | 344 |
| 8 | March 20, 2025 17:15 | March 20, 2025 20:30 | 3h 15m | 654 | 822 |
| 9 | November 1, 2025 09:45 | November 1, 2025 11:00 | 1h 15m | 618 | 773 |
| 10 | July 2, 2025 03:15 | July 2, 2025 03:30 | 15m | 579 | 145 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 38 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 Alexander County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 Carolinas, LLC | 2024 | 78.6 hrs | 2.50 | 2.9 hrs | 1.26 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2024 | 7.1 hrs | 2.13 | 2.1 hrs | 1.33 |
| 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 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 6,903 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. Alexander County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Alexander County, NC annual power outage report, 2025, 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/2025/north-carolina/alexander-county