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2025 Ashe County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Ashe County, NC went without power for an average of 15.8 hours, a total of 277K customer-hours (North Carolina average 9.8 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 470th 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 Ashe 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 | February 12, 2025 02:00 | February 13, 2025 20:15 | 1d 18h | 5,984 | 137K |
| 2 | February 13, 2025 21:45 | February 18, 2025 01:00 | 4d 3h | 3,969 | 93K |
| 3 | March 16, 2025 09:45 | March 17, 2025 10:00 | 1d | 3,754 | 13K |
| 4 | May 31, 2025 11:15 | June 1, 2025 01:15 | 14h | 1,659 | 2,082 |
| 5 | February 19, 2025 19:00 | February 19, 2025 22:00 | 3h | 1,580 | 579 |
| 6 | October 6, 2025 13:45 | October 6, 2025 14:15 | 30m | 1,328 | 333 |
| 7 | June 6, 2025 20:30 | June 7, 2025 00:45 | 4h 15m | 1,314 | 1,194 |
| 8 | January 4, 2025 15:45 | January 4, 2025 20:30 | 4h 45m | 1,036 | 1,800 |
| 9 | March 8, 2025 16:00 | March 8, 2025 18:00 | 2h | 774 | 777 |
| 10 | January 29, 2025 08:15 | January 29, 2025 22:00 | 13h 45m | 768 | 1,302 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 39 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Ashe 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 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, 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/ashe-county