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2021 Mitchell County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Mitchell County, NC went without power for an average of 52.7 hours, a total of 89K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.3 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 169th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Mitchell County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 3, 2021 22:45 | September 4, 2021 12:00 | 13h 15m | 5,486 | 9,650 |
| 2 | August 17, 2021 16:00 | August 20, 2021 14:15 | 2d 22h | 2,718 | 41K |
| 3 | October 26, 2021 04:30 | October 26, 2021 14:30 | 10h | 1,654 | 2,966 |
| 4 | April 1, 2021 05:15 | April 1, 2021 16:00 | 10h 45m | 1,195 | 1,599 |
| 5 | August 31, 2021 13:45 | September 1, 2021 16:30 | 1d 2h | 836 | 1,057 |
| 6 | April 30, 2021 14:30 | April 30, 2021 20:30 | 6h | 835 | 477 |
| 7 | August 25, 2021 04:45 | August 25, 2021 23:45 | 19h | 743 | 4,153 |
| 8 | May 26, 2021 12:45 | May 26, 2021 22:15 | 9h 30m | 568 | 1,163 |
| 9 | October 20, 2021 13:15 | October 20, 2021 19:45 | 6h 30m | 474 | 2,837 |
| 10 | January 28, 2021 12:30 | January 28, 2021 18:15 | 5h 45m | 470 | 1,491 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 22 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 2021, 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) | 2021 | 3.1 hrs | 1.39 | 2.4 hrs | 1.34 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2021 | 1.7 hrs | 0.85 | 63 min | 0.61 |
| 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 92% of North Carolina's customers in 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/north-carolina/mitchell-county