Mitchell County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Mitchell County, North Carolina had 24 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.94 times the US outage time per person and 1.58 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 28 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.7major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

37 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Aughardest months

April and August made up 36% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 1, 2023, reached 8,043 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 25.5 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	80,238	14	1
2016	45,477	25	2
2017	75,334	28	4
2018	93,156	22	5
2019	45,122	26	1
2020	67,106	15	2
2021	59,774	17	2
2022	47,168	16	1
2023	128,774	36	6

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Apr 1, 2023	25.5	8,043	57,664
Feb 27, 2015	8.2	5,301	42,713
Aug 17, 2021	27.8	2,718	36,642
Apr 5, 2018	17.0	3,127	35,923
Feb 12, 2020	4.0	5,158	20,626

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.