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2025 Mitchell County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Mitchell County, NC went without power for an average of 80.7 hours, a total of 137K customer-hours (North Carolina average 9.8 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 42nd 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 Mitchell 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 | April 27, 2025 04:15 | April 27, 2025 18:00 | 13h 45m | 4,704 | 14K |
| 2 | February 12, 2025 00:45 | February 15, 2025 17:00 | 3d 16h | 2,612 | 44K |
| 3 | November 20, 2025 14:45 | November 22, 2025 01:45 | 1d 11h | 1,760 | 1,391 |
| 4 | May 16, 2025 17:45 | May 18, 2025 06:30 | 1d 12h | 1,166 | 6,828 |
| 5 | March 4, 2025 16:30 | March 7, 2025 03:45 | 2d 11h | 1,057 | 7,993 |
| 6 | April 15, 2025 15:45 | April 16, 2025 03:00 | 11h 15m | 912 | 2,452 |
| 7 | January 1, 2025 00:00 | January 16, 2025 17:00 | 15d 17h | 810 | 15K |
| 8 | March 16, 2025 03:15 | March 17, 2025 13:30 | 1d 10h | 796 | 3,979 |
| 9 | June 30, 2025 13:30 | June 30, 2025 23:00 | 9h 30m | 648 | 706 |
| 10 | May 22, 2025 21:00 | May 23, 2025 18:30 | 21h 30m | 640 | 1,060 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 47 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 Mitchell 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 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 2025; 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, 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/mitchell-county