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2024 Mitchell County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Mitchell County, NC went without power for an average of 2218.1 hours, a total of 3.8M customer-hours (North Carolina average 66.1 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 5th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Mitchell County, 2024
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 26, 2024 00:45 | December 19, 2024 09:30 | 84d 8h | 11,504 | 3.7M |
| 2 | April 11, 2024 05:30 | April 13, 2024 06:15 | 2d | 1,682 | 7,134 |
| 3 | May 7, 2024 00:30 | May 7, 2024 06:00 | 5h 30m | 1,515 | 1,529 |
| 4 | May 10, 2024 22:45 | May 11, 2024 02:45 | 4h | 1,515 | 1,905 |
| 5 | July 5, 2024 19:15 | July 5, 2024 22:45 | 3h 30m | 1,515 | 880 |
| 6 | May 10, 2024 12:30 | May 10, 2024 19:15 | 6h 45m | 1,513 | 1,141 |
| 7 | July 2, 2024 05:30 | July 2, 2024 05:45 | 15m | 1,504 | 376 |
| 8 | July 30, 2024 22:15 | July 31, 2024 09:45 | 11h 30m | 1,297 | 2,665 |
| 9 | April 14, 2024 23:15 | April 15, 2024 00:30 | 1h 15m | 1,288 | 1,609 |
| 10 | June 11, 2024 13:15 | June 12, 2024 11:00 | 21h 45m | 1,276 | 1,073 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 32 reached 100+ customers, 12 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 2024, 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) | 2024 | 17.2 hrs | 1.70 | 2.2 hrs | 1.22 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2024 | 92.2 hrs | 2.48 | 5.8 hrs | 1.11 |
| 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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/north-carolina/mitchell-county