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2022 Burke County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Burke County, NC went without power for an average of 6.1 hours, a total of 120K customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 65th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1194th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Burke County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 23, 2022 10:15 | December 24, 2022 23:45 | 1d 13h | 4,202 | 31K |
| 2 | December 20, 2022 16:45 | December 20, 2022 21:00 | 4h 15m | 3,539 | 7,676 |
| 3 | December 22, 2022 15:15 | December 23, 2022 01:15 | 10h | 3,193 | 11K |
| 4 | July 14, 2022 11:15 | July 14, 2022 12:15 | 1h | 2,189 | 1,096 |
| 5 | February 20, 2022 01:15 | February 20, 2022 06:45 | 5h 30m | 1,762 | 2,647 |
| 6 | July 31, 2022 00:30 | August 1, 2022 16:15 | 1d 15h | 1,566 | 4,302 |
| 7 | February 6, 2022 05:15 | February 6, 2022 06:45 | 1h 30m | 1,561 | 2,342 |
| 8 | March 12, 2022 14:00 | March 13, 2022 06:45 | 16h 45m | 1,374 | 5,243 |
| 9 | April 24, 2022 04:15 | April 24, 2022 06:30 | 2h 15m | 1,362 | 3,065 |
| 10 | March 26, 2022 12:15 | March 27, 2022 05:15 | 17h | 1,361 | 4,691 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 61 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 2022, 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 | 2022 | 7.1 hrs | 1.93 | 3.1 hrs | 1.35 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2022 | 2.0 hrs | 1.05 | 1.6 hrs | 0.88 |
| 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 92% of North Carolina's customers in 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/north-carolina/burke-county