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Who serves Buncombe County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Duke Energy Carolinas, NC Electric Cooperatives and Haywood EMC, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider. For the parent company's combined picture, see Duke Energy outages across every state it serves.
Outage history — Buncombe County, NC
Last significant outage: Sep 30, 2026 — peaked at 1,490 customers, restored in ~5 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 30 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 8.8 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 22, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Buncombe County, NC
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
1,503 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
24 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
4.8 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is longer than the North Carolina norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3 hr.
Largest on record: an outage in September 2024, restored after about 17.7 days. The recorded customer count for this outage is not shown — it is larger than the county's entire customer base, a known double-counting problem in the federal source. The busiest year on record here was 2023.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Cities we track in Buncombe County
Communities in Buncombe County include Asheville, Black Mountain, Woodfin, Weaverville, Biltmore Forest, Montreat, Avery Creek and Barnardsville. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Buncombe County, NC?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Buncombe include Duke Energy Carolinas, NC Electric Cooperatives and Haywood EMC — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.
