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2025 Wilkes County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Wilkes County, NC went without power for an average of 23.7 hours, a total of 191K customer-hours (North Carolina average 9.8 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 271st 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 Wilkes 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 | July 3, 2025 14:00 | July 4, 2025 02:15 | 12h 15m | 7,053 | 15K |
| 2 | August 12, 2025 12:45 | August 13, 2025 01:15 | 12h 30m | 6,535 | 15K |
| 3 | August 24, 2025 20:15 | August 25, 2025 06:30 | 10h 15m | 2,673 | 13K |
| 4 | March 5, 2025 09:30 | March 6, 2025 04:15 | 18h 45m | 2,420 | 7,370 |
| 5 | June 14, 2025 19:00 | June 16, 2025 15:00 | 1d 20h | 2,353 | 13K |
| 6 | April 10, 2025 13:45 | April 10, 2025 19:15 | 5h 30m | 2,131 | 3,200 |
| 7 | May 5, 2025 13:15 | May 5, 2025 21:15 | 8h | 1,733 | 492 |
| 8 | June 26, 2025 16:15 | June 27, 2025 16:45 | 1d | 1,515 | 10K |
| 9 | May 15, 2025 18:15 | May 15, 2025 18:30 | 15m | 1,255 | 314 |
| 10 | July 1, 2025 13:15 | July 3, 2025 01:00 | 1d 11h | 1,242 | 3,544 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 79 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Wilkes 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 |
| Surry-Yadkin Elec Member Corp | 2024 | 23.9 hrs | 3.06 | 3.5 hrs | 1.55 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 8,042 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. Wilkes County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wilkes 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/wilkes-county