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2023 Mitchell County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Mitchell County, NC went without power for an average of 90.8 hours, a total of 154K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.6 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 31st of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Mitchell County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 1, 2023 17:30 | April 3, 2023 20:45 | 2d 3h | 8,043 | 59K |
| 2 | November 8, 2023 13:45 | November 10, 2023 03:15 | 1d 13h | 2,134 | 3,943 |
| 3 | August 15, 2023 05:15 | August 15, 2023 19:15 | 14h | 1,970 | 4,552 |
| 4 | August 25, 2023 23:30 | August 26, 2023 04:15 | 4h 45m | 1,764 | 3,066 |
| 5 | December 27, 2023 14:45 | December 27, 2023 17:15 | 2h 30m | 1,530 | 1,912 |
| 6 | October 26, 2023 20:45 | October 26, 2023 23:30 | 2h 45m | 1,515 | 2,130 |
| 7 | October 17, 2023 04:15 | October 17, 2023 07:45 | 3h 30m | 1,514 | 5,039 |
| 8 | August 7, 2023 14:15 | August 8, 2023 21:45 | 1d 7h | 1,510 | 7,670 |
| 9 | June 3, 2023 12:30 | June 3, 2023 19:15 | 6h 45m | 1,509 | 3,759 |
| 10 | June 13, 2023 02:15 | June 13, 2023 04:45 | 2h 30m | 1,505 | 3,724 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 47 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 2023, 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) | 2023 | 3.7 hrs | 1.47 | 2.4 hrs | 1.22 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2023 | 2.4 hrs | 1.09 | 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 n/a of North Carolina's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/north-carolina/mitchell-county