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2015 Mitchell County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Mitchell County, NC went without power for an average of 56.3 hours, a total of 95K customer-hours (North Carolina average 7.5 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 38th 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 Mitchell 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 | March 1, 2015 04:15 | March 1, 2015 08:00 | 3h 45m | 5,463 | 8,952 |
| 2 | April 22, 2015 16:15 | April 22, 2015 21:45 | 5h 30m | 5,306 | 25K |
| 3 | February 27, 2015 06:45 | February 27, 2015 16:30 | 9h 45m | 5,301 | 43K |
| 4 | October 4, 2015 08:30 | October 4, 2015 13:15 | 4h 45m | 833 | 1,928 |
| 5 | October 3, 2015 20:15 | October 4, 2015 06:30 | 10h 15m | 801 | 4,414 |
| 6 | July 14, 2015 12:00 | July 14, 2015 23:15 | 11h 15m | 520 | 2,093 |
| 7 | June 27, 2015 07:30 | June 27, 2015 14:15 | 6h 45m | 493 | 1,818 |
| 8 | July 5, 2015 17:00 | July 5, 2015 18:45 | 1h 45m | 475 | 568 |
| 9 | March 23, 2015 13:30 | March 23, 2015 17:00 | 3h 30m | 473 | 1,353 |
| 10 | January 10, 2015 23:00 | January 11, 2015 01:30 | 2h 30m | 248 | 558 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 13 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Mitchell 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 Progress - (NC) | 2015 | 4.8 hrs | 1.90 | 3.0 hrs | 1.65 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2015 | 62 min | 0.82 | 55 min | 0.79 |
| French Broad Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 1,696 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. Mitchell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mitchell 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/mitchell-county