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2025 Burke County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Burke County, NC went without power for an average of 4.9 hours, a total of 98K customer-hours (North Carolina average 9.8 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1508th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Burke County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 16, 2025 09:15 | March 16, 2025 14:15 | 5h | 2,199 | 3,910 |
| 2 | June 23, 2025 21:45 | June 24, 2025 06:45 | 9h | 1,734 | 1,794 |
| 3 | April 7, 2025 11:30 | April 7, 2025 22:45 | 11h 15m | 1,168 | 4,197 |
| 4 | December 10, 2025 01:30 | December 10, 2025 10:15 | 8h 45m | 1,076 | 2,569 |
| 5 | August 17, 2025 20:30 | August 18, 2025 05:45 | 9h 15m | 1,058 | 5,740 |
| 6 | May 17, 2025 08:45 | May 18, 2025 03:30 | 18h 45m | 999 | 2,247 |
| 7 | September 14, 2025 13:15 | September 15, 2025 03:45 | 14h 30m | 845 | 4,842 |
| 8 | March 25, 2025 22:30 | March 26, 2025 00:00 | 1h 30m | 844 | 1,266 |
| 9 | July 19, 2025 20:15 | July 20, 2025 01:45 | 5h 30m | 680 | 706 |
| 10 | March 6, 2025 11:45 | March 7, 2025 01:15 | 13h 30m | 666 | 2,054 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 58 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 2025, 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 | 2024 | 78.6 hrs | 2.50 | 2.9 hrs | 1.26 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2024 | 92.2 hrs | 2.48 | 5.8 hrs | 1.11 |
| Mountain Electric Coop, Inc | 2024 | 2.8 hrs | 2.91 | 2.8 hrs | 2.91 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 n/a of North Carolina's customers in 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/north-carolina/burke-county