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2025 Gates County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Gates County, NC went without power for an average of 7.0 hours, a total of 38K customer-hours (North Carolina average 9.8 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1145th 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 Gates 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 | August 12, 2025 17:30 | August 12, 2025 20:15 | 2h 45m | 2,360 | 1,858 |
| 2 | June 28, 2025 13:30 | June 30, 2025 12:45 | 1d 23h | 1,475 | 9,129 |
| 3 | May 16, 2025 23:30 | May 17, 2025 09:30 | 10h | 1,456 | 4,888 |
| 4 | July 13, 2025 21:00 | July 14, 2025 04:00 | 7h | 986 | 4,225 |
| 5 | May 31, 2025 05:30 | May 31, 2025 10:15 | 4h 45m | 791 | 2,621 |
| 6 | November 16, 2025 17:15 | November 16, 2025 22:45 | 5h 30m | 495 | 815 |
| 7 | May 13, 2025 13:00 | May 13, 2025 22:00 | 9h | 483 | 1,489 |
| 8 | December 19, 2025 19:45 | December 19, 2025 20:30 | 45m | 470 | 352 |
| 9 | June 15, 2025 01:45 | June 15, 2025 09:30 | 7h 45m | 431 | 1,510 |
| 10 | March 6, 2025 18:45 | March 6, 2025 21:15 | 2h 30m | 411 | 861 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 22 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2025; 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, 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/gates-county