Asheville tracker · Counting since October 11, 2026
Asheville Tracker
Every road closure, water issue, outage, construction notice and transit alert the city's agencies, utilities and newsrooms reported across Asheville and the close-in metro, counted week by week. No login, no feed. Just the numbers, and where they landed.
What the numbers say
A lighter week on the roads, with I-40 coming up most. Construction was busier than the week before.
Half of Asheville's road incidents clear within 1.6 hours. The longest ran 2 days.
Measured from 72 with a start and end time, the last 2 weeks.
Half of Asheville's outages clear within 5.8 hours. The longest ran 31 hours.
Measured from 70 with a start and end time, the last 2 weeks.
Half of Asheville's construction notices clear within 9.5 hours. The longest ran 3 days.
Measured from 47 with a start and end time, the last 2 weeks.
Road incidents cluster between 1 PM and 2 PM: 16 percent of them start in that one hour.
Measured from 79 road incidents, the last 2 weeks.
Week by week
Outages fell from 53 to 27 last week. Construction notices rose. Road incidents eased.
Weeks start on Sunday. One thing is counted once per place per day, and something that runs for days counts on the day it started. Brief lane blocks that cleared inside an hour are left out, closures scheduled to run longer than a week are roadworks rather than incidents, an outage counts when it left 10 or more customers without power, and stories about policy or funding are not incidents.
Where Asheville was hit this week
61 percent of road incidents in the last 7 days happened on four roads.
Areas, most affected first
79 placedWhat the map says
Tap a row to see it on the map.Areas are measured from Pack Square in downtown Asheville: within 2 miles is Downtown Asheville, within 8 miles (about where I-240 and the Blue Ridge Parkway edge run) is that side of Asheville, and beyond that is the metro. Hendersonville is its own centre: anything within 5 miles of downtown Hendersonville is placed there. An item with no coordinates is counted in the totals but not placed on the map. Corridors come from the road a source named. Interstates are split into the stretch north, south, east or west of downtown Asheville, since one number for a whole interstate hides where the trouble is. Asheville's council is elected at large, so there are no council districts. The areas are Buncombe County's own commission districts, from the county GIS: the three district seats, 1 to 3, which together cover Asheville and the rest of Buncombe County. Henderson, Haywood and Madison counties have no district drawn yet and are shown on the metro map.
Sources are read every ten minutes, and the counts are rebuilt whenever one of them publishes something new. Last counted Oct 26, 4:08 AM ET.
Only what these sources published. Nothing inferred. Counted once when an agency and a newsroom report the same thing.