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2020 Mitchell County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Mitchell County, NC went without power for an average of 54.0 hours, a total of 92K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 148th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Mitchell County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 7, 2020 22:30 | August 8, 2020 15:30 | 17h | 8,379 | 20K |
| 2 | May 15, 2020 04:15 | May 15, 2020 21:45 | 17h 30m | 5,289 | 1,407 |
| 3 | February 11, 2020 08:45 | February 12, 2020 10:15 | 1d 1h | 5,158 | 21K |
| 4 | April 2, 2020 15:00 | April 2, 2020 21:00 | 6h | 2,103 | 533 |
| 5 | May 11, 2020 13:45 | May 12, 2020 21:45 | 1d 8h | 2,102 | 11K |
| 6 | July 21, 2020 13:30 | July 24, 2020 03:00 | 2d 13h | 1,155 | 4,772 |
| 7 | April 10, 2020 05:45 | April 10, 2020 22:15 | 16h 30m | 1,090 | 6,376 |
| 8 | December 21, 2020 20:30 | December 22, 2020 20:45 | 1d | 743 | 1,708 |
| 9 | June 21, 2020 08:00 | June 22, 2020 03:30 | 19h 30m | 640 | 2,843 |
| 10 | June 7, 2020 06:15 | June 7, 2020 10:00 | 3h 45m | 470 | 1,078 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 25 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 2020, 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) | 2020 | 5.2 hrs | 1.81 | 2.3 hrs | 1.37 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2020 | 5.2 hrs | 1.38 | 86 min | 0.94 |
| 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 91% of North Carolina's customers in 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/north-carolina/mitchell-county