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2018 Burke County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Burke County, NC went without power for an average of 12.7 hours, a total of 252K customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 433rd of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Burke County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 24, 2018 04:15 | November 26, 2018 22:15 | 2d 18h | 4,806 | 110K |
| 2 | December 9, 2018 06:15 | December 12, 2018 01:30 | 2d 19h | 2,358 | 80K |
| 3 | March 15, 2018 18:15 | March 15, 2018 23:30 | 5h 15m | 2,021 | 2,699 |
| 4 | May 10, 2018 18:15 | May 11, 2018 11:15 | 17h | 1,524 | 6,239 |
| 5 | May 21, 2018 18:15 | May 22, 2018 09:30 | 15h 15m | 1,501 | 5,736 |
| 6 | June 21, 2018 13:30 | June 21, 2018 20:45 | 7h 15m | 1,444 | 418 |
| 7 | November 6, 2018 19:00 | November 6, 2018 20:30 | 1h 30m | 1,143 | 306 |
| 8 | August 31, 2018 05:30 | September 1, 2018 03:15 | 21h 45m | 1,074 | 2,541 |
| 9 | October 10, 2018 16:00 | October 10, 2018 21:00 | 5h | 908 | 957 |
| 10 | October 11, 2018 12:45 | October 12, 2018 15:15 | 1d 2h | 812 | 6,533 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 35 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 2018, 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 | 2018 | 13.1 hrs | 1.81 | 3.7 hrs | 1.19 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2018 | 6.8 hrs | 1.63 | 1.9 hrs | 0.82 |
| 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 82% of North Carolina's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/north-carolina/burke-county