When will the power be back in Mitchell County, NC?
See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · North Carolina
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customer reported out in Mitchell County, NC
Reported as one combined county-wide total by French Broad Electric Membership Corp · county-wide data
A small number of customers are reported out county-wide — too few for a live restoration estimate. past outages here typically ran ~2.7 hr, based on 4 past outages of any size in the same kind of weather.
County-wide data — your specific neighborhood or circuit may be restored earlier or later.
Updated 11:35 PM EDT.
11 county-wide trend of customers without power · last 39 hr · tap or hover a point to see its number
Communities with reported outages — from the utilities that publish city-by-city detail for this county
French Broad — 1 customer reported out
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Who serves Mitchell County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Duke Energy Carolinas, NC Electric Cooperatives and Rutherford EMC, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider. For the parent company's combined picture, see Duke Energy outages across every state it serves.
Outage history — Mitchell County, NC
Last significant outage: Sep 25, 2026 — peaked at 492 customers, restored in ~3.3 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 8 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 4 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 27, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Mitchell County, NC
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
238 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~3.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in spring.
Largest on record: ~11,504 customers out in September 2024, restored after about 26.6 days. The busiest year on record here was 2024.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Communities covered
Communities in Mitchell County include Spruce Pine and Bakersville. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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