Ashe County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Ashe County, North Carolina had 7 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.47 times the US outage time per person and 0.38 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 86 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.8major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

56 hrslongest major outage

Nov, Julhardest months

November and July made up 54% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Nov 15, 2018, reached 5,903 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 55.8 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	2,253	6	0
2016	36,594	22	1
2017	22,675	31	0
2018	120,496	19	2
2019	34,345	35	1
2020	9,864	18	0
2021	16,074	23	1
2022	22,550	35	1
2023	15,509	16	1

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Nov 15, 2018	55.8	5,903	107,691
Jul 23, 2016	3.0	5,195	13,859
Jul 8, 2016	21.0	1,474	10,724
Aug 17, 2021	10.2	1,241	6,847
Apr 1, 2023	11.0	1,709	6,645

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.