County annual report · FIPS 37023
2015 Burke County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Burke County, NC went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 34K customer-hours (North Carolina average 7.5 hours). That ranks 72nd worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 1356th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Burke County, 2015
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 8, 2015 17:15 | July 8, 2015 21:00 | 3h 45m | 2,497 | 2,739 |
| 2 | June 5, 2015 03:00 | June 5, 2015 04:00 | 1h | 2,494 | 2,494 |
| 3 | August 10, 2015 18:15 | August 10, 2015 23:00 | 4h 45m | 1,516 | 1,524 |
| 4 | August 5, 2015 15:15 | August 5, 2015 18:45 | 3h 30m | 1,429 | 1,088 |
| 5 | July 20, 2015 23:30 | July 21, 2015 09:30 | 10h | 1,337 | 2,802 |
| 6 | August 7, 2015 17:30 | August 7, 2015 19:30 | 2h | 987 | 987 |
| 7 | September 30, 2015 18:15 | October 1, 2015 18:45 | 1d | 569 | 500 |
| 8 | August 17, 2015 13:30 | August 18, 2015 01:30 | 12h | 501 | 514 |
| 9 | April 11, 2015 02:15 | April 11, 2015 06:45 | 4h 30m | 498 | 1,895 |
| 10 | March 9, 2015 14:15 | March 9, 2015 16:15 | 2h | 487 | 609 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 25 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Burke County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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 | 2015 | 5.3 hrs | 1.29 | 2.6 hrs | 1.02 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2015 | 62 min | 0.82 | 55 min | 0.79 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mountain Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Morganton - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Drexel - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 19,746 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. Burke County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Burke County, NC annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/north-carolina/burke-county