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2019 Mitchell County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Mitchell County, NC went without power for an average of 40.6 hours, a total of 69K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 74th 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 Mitchell 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 | January 11, 2019 01:15 | January 11, 2019 04:30 | 3h 15m | 5,166 | 12K |
| 2 | October 31, 2019 21:30 | November 2, 2019 03:00 | 1d 5h | 3,200 | 17K |
| 3 | September 24, 2019 13:45 | September 25, 2019 22:45 | 1d 9h | 2,963 | 1,745 |
| 4 | February 24, 2019 17:15 | February 26, 2019 00:45 | 1d 7h | 2,234 | 5,288 |
| 5 | December 5, 2019 04:00 | December 6, 2019 05:15 | 1d 1h | 968 | 2,235 |
| 6 | September 3, 2019 14:15 | September 6, 2019 00:15 | 2d 10h | 795 | 1,829 |
| 7 | October 3, 2019 04:15 | October 3, 2019 04:30 | 15m | 743 | 186 |
| 8 | January 28, 2019 16:30 | January 28, 2019 18:30 | 2h | 601 | 1,007 |
| 9 | January 10, 2019 10:15 | January 10, 2019 12:00 | 1h 45m | 587 | 734 |
| 10 | January 9, 2019 03:30 | January 9, 2019 11:30 | 8h | 562 | 3,373 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 28 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 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 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 90% of North Carolina's customers in 2019; 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, 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/mitchell-county