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2022 Mitchell County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Mitchell County, NC went without power for an average of 40.6 hours, a total of 69K customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 103rd 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 Mitchell 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 | August 28, 2022 01:30 | August 28, 2022 06:30 | 5h | 4,889 | 9,784 |
| 2 | June 21, 2022 21:30 | June 22, 2022 00:30 | 3h | 2,947 | 3,569 |
| 3 | December 23, 2022 08:30 | December 25, 2022 01:15 | 1d 16h | 1,558 | 23K |
| 4 | March 12, 2022 11:00 | March 13, 2022 16:45 | 1d 5h | 1,111 | 2,949 |
| 5 | January 1, 2022 00:00 | January 4, 2022 03:30 | 3d 3h | 936 | 2,234 |
| 6 | January 16, 2022 14:15 | January 17, 2022 20:00 | 1d 5h | 909 | 5,590 |
| 7 | June 17, 2022 20:30 | June 18, 2022 00:15 | 3h 45m | 657 | 625 |
| 8 | May 21, 2022 00:30 | May 21, 2022 05:45 | 5h 15m | 380 | 314 |
| 9 | August 28, 2022 11:15 | August 28, 2022 15:15 | 4h | 323 | 135 |
| 10 | July 20, 2022 13:15 | July 20, 2022 17:15 | 4h | 275 | 76 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 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 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 Progress - (NC) | 2022 | 9.8 hrs | 2.35 | 2.2 hrs | 1.26 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2022 | 2.0 hrs | 1.05 | 1.6 hrs | 0.88 |
| 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 2022; 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, 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/mitchell-county