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2017 Burke County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Burke County, NC went without power for an average of 18.6 hours, a total of 368K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.0 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 299th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Burke County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 23, 2017 17:15 | October 27, 2017 09:45 | 3d 16h | 5,228 | 277K |
| 2 | October 8, 2017 22:15 | October 10, 2017 05:30 | 1d 7h | 4,684 | 18K |
| 3 | June 14, 2017 12:00 | June 14, 2017 15:15 | 3h 15m | 3,437 | 1,856 |
| 4 | December 8, 2017 19:30 | December 11, 2017 06:30 | 2d 11h | 1,662 | 25K |
| 5 | September 29, 2017 00:15 | September 29, 2017 03:30 | 3h 15m | 1,517 | 3,034 |
| 6 | April 25, 2017 05:15 | April 25, 2017 08:00 | 2h 45m | 1,496 | 753 |
| 7 | April 19, 2017 19:15 | April 19, 2017 21:30 | 2h 15m | 1,077 | 1,170 |
| 8 | February 8, 2017 18:30 | February 8, 2017 21:15 | 2h 45m | 988 | 251 |
| 9 | December 23, 2017 16:15 | December 23, 2017 23:30 | 7h 15m | 629 | 1,121 |
| 10 | April 28, 2017 17:30 | April 28, 2017 19:15 | 1h 45m | 578 | 578 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 45 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 2017, 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 | 2017 | 8.8 hrs | 1.52 | 3.1 hrs | 1.11 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2017 | 3.3 hrs | 1.59 | 72 min | 1.09 |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/north-carolina/burke-county