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2017 Mitchell County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Mitchell County, NC went without power for an average of 55.0 hours, a total of 93K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.0 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 60th 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 Mitchell 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 | January 24, 2017 07:30 | January 24, 2017 09:15 | 1h 45m | 1,722 | 2,596 |
| 2 | December 8, 2017 18:30 | December 10, 2017 22:45 | 2d 4h | 1,436 | 15K |
| 3 | April 22, 2017 10:30 | April 22, 2017 11:15 | 45m | 1,321 | 991 |
| 4 | September 11, 2017 14:15 | September 14, 2017 02:45 | 2d 12h | 1,196 | 21K |
| 5 | May 27, 2017 19:15 | May 29, 2017 19:15 | 2d | 1,175 | 15K |
| 6 | October 23, 2017 14:30 | October 24, 2017 23:15 | 1d 8h | 956 | 9,739 |
| 7 | May 6, 2017 13:45 | May 6, 2017 15:15 | 1h 30m | 802 | 1,143 |
| 8 | April 7, 2017 11:15 | April 7, 2017 16:15 | 5h | 801 | 2,384 |
| 9 | May 1, 2017 17:15 | May 1, 2017 19:45 | 2h 30m | 744 | 747 |
| 10 | June 29, 2017 13:30 | June 29, 2017 13:45 | 15m | 742 | 186 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 30 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 Mitchell 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 Progress - (NC) | 2017 | 3.2 hrs | 1.52 | 2.7 hrs | 1.47 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2017 | 3.3 hrs | 1.59 | 72 min | 1.09 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/mitchell-county