Power Out Map
– 0% of Yadkin out 0 customers out in North Carolina

Power outage history

Yadkin County North Carolina

6.1hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

69th most of 100 in North Carolina close to the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Zeta · Oct 29, 2020 63% of customers out · 90% back in 30 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 6.1h / yr State average 8.3 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 2.1 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 4hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 2.3days Hurricane Helene, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 63% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 14 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 26,915 EAGLE-I 2024 count · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Yadkin's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 14 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Yadkin, hours without power per customer

YadkinUS median countyNorth Carolina average
0 5 10 15 20 0.9 ’15 5.9 ’16 4.0 ’17 3.7 ’18 4.5 ’19 14 ’20 3.5 ’21 6.3 ’22 6.1 ’23 7.9 ’24 2.1 ’25 NC 8.3 US 6.6

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Oct 29, 2020 Hurricane Zeta 16,980 63% 2.2 d 30 h 290k
Sep 27, 2024 Hurricane Helene 6,512 24% 2.3 d 28 h 143k
Jul 8, 2016 Thunderstorms 2,574 10% 42 h 35 h 69k
Jan 13, 2019 Winter storm 4,850 18% 39 h 12 h 58k
Jul 17, 2022 No storm report 4,839 18% 15 h 4.2 h 48k
Oct 11, 2018 Hurricane Michael 4,407 16% 26 h 19 h 42k
Dec 8, 2017 Winter storm 3,492 13% 21 h 15 h 42k
Jun 19, 2023 No storm report 2,735 10% 20 h 15 h 41k
May 16, 2023 Thunderstorms 4,049 15% 24 h 22 h 33k
Apr 13, 2020 Thunderstorms 5,211 19% 8.8 h 6.2 h 30k
Dec 23, 2022 No storm report 4,001 15% 11 h 3.8 h 27k
Nov 1, 2020 No storm report 5,789 22% 12 h 2.2 h 24k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +6h 90% by +16h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Yadkin from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Tropical storm 44%
  • No storm on record 37%
  • Thunderstorms 11%
  • Winter storm 6.2%
  • Windstorm 0.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Yadkin

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole North Carolina territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC Investor Owned 216 172 1.35 13.4 2.0M
EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp Cooperative 169 121 1.56 11.6 124k
Surry-Yadkin Elec Member Corp Cooperative 249 176 1.81 17.5 28k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across North Carolina

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All North Carolina counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 26,915 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →