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2019 Burke County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Burke County, NC went without power for an average of 8.3 hours, a total of 164K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 675th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Burke County, 2019
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 23, 2019 20:30 | April 24, 2019 17:30 | 21h | 3,036 | 35K |
| 2 | October 13, 2019 16:15 | October 13, 2019 17:30 | 1h 15m | 2,914 | 1,457 |
| 3 | January 9, 2019 10:45 | January 9, 2019 22:00 | 11h 15m | 1,532 | 2,893 |
| 4 | August 4, 2019 22:00 | August 4, 2019 23:00 | 1h | 1,519 | 1,519 |
| 5 | June 13, 2019 22:45 | June 14, 2019 01:30 | 2h 45m | 1,474 | 2,461 |
| 6 | June 10, 2019 04:15 | June 10, 2019 14:30 | 10h 15m | 1,257 | 11K |
| 7 | January 5, 2019 00:45 | January 5, 2019 16:45 | 16h | 1,213 | 10K |
| 8 | August 14, 2019 14:45 | August 14, 2019 17:00 | 2h 15m | 1,150 | 1,422 |
| 9 | July 17, 2019 15:45 | July 18, 2019 08:15 | 16h 30m | 1,112 | 12K |
| 10 | April 26, 2019 18:15 | April 28, 2019 13:15 | 1d 19h | 1,012 | 12K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 46 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 2019, 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 90% of North Carolina's customers in 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/north-carolina/burke-county