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2018 Mitchell County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Mitchell County, NC went without power for an average of 61.6 hours, a total of 104K customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 102nd 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 Mitchell 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 | April 5, 2018 21:15 | April 6, 2018 15:45 | 18h 30m | 3,127 | 36K |
| 2 | March 2, 2018 00:45 | March 4, 2018 04:00 | 2d 3h | 2,148 | 13K |
| 3 | June 25, 2018 20:15 | June 27, 2018 00:45 | 1d 4h | 2,108 | 8,839 |
| 4 | October 21, 2018 01:15 | October 22, 2018 22:30 | 1d 21h | 1,839 | 16K |
| 5 | November 24, 2018 05:30 | November 25, 2018 22:45 | 1d 17h | 1,557 | 11K |
| 6 | October 11, 2018 18:00 | October 12, 2018 18:45 | 1d | 604 | 2,744 |
| 7 | September 16, 2018 06:45 | September 17, 2018 00:45 | 18h | 508 | 2,684 |
| 8 | June 30, 2018 16:45 | June 30, 2018 20:30 | 3h 45m | 486 | 1,823 |
| 9 | July 10, 2018 06:45 | July 10, 2018 09:45 | 3h | 484 | 849 |
| 10 | March 25, 2018 02:45 | March 25, 2018 19:15 | 16h 30m | 335 | 2,229 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 18 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 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 Progress - (NC) | 2018 | 43.0 hrs | 2.71 | 2.6 hrs | 1.33 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2018 | 6.8 hrs | 1.63 | 1.9 hrs | 0.82 |
| 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 82% of North Carolina's customers in 2018; 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, 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/mitchell-county