County annual report · FIPS 37121
2016 Mitchell County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Mitchell County, NC went without power for an average of 34.9 hours, a total of 59K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 80th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Mitchell County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 30, 2016 02:00 | December 30, 2016 03:00 | 1h | 2,101 | 2,100 |
| 2 | June 5, 2016 06:00 | June 5, 2016 13:30 | 7h 30m | 1,162 | 6,098 |
| 3 | January 6, 2016 23:15 | January 7, 2016 01:30 | 2h 15m | 1,078 | 2,164 |
| 4 | July 8, 2016 22:00 | July 9, 2016 21:00 | 23h | 829 | 13K |
| 5 | July 26, 2016 00:00 | July 26, 2016 07:15 | 7h 15m | 808 | 4,382 |
| 6 | February 28, 2016 17:30 | February 28, 2016 23:00 | 5h 30m | 773 | 618 |
| 7 | September 26, 2016 19:30 | September 26, 2016 21:15 | 1h 45m | 743 | 752 |
| 8 | August 9, 2016 22:45 | August 10, 2016 03:15 | 4h 30m | 741 | 1,885 |
| 9 | April 7, 2016 23:00 | April 8, 2016 01:00 | 2h | 570 | 1,137 |
| 10 | November 29, 2016 01:00 | November 29, 2016 11:00 | 10h | 477 | 1,347 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 25 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 2016, 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) | 2016 | 63.5 hrs | 3.55 | 3.0 hrs | 1.63 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2016 | 2.0 hrs | 1.14 | 47 min | 0.57 |
| 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 2016; 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, 2016, 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/2016/north-carolina/mitchell-county