When will the power be back in Swain County, NC?
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No significant county-wide outage reported in Swain County, NC right now.
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Elsewhere in North Carolina: 2,890 customers reported out — statewide status.
Updated 11:31 PM EDT.
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Who serves Swain County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Duke Energy Carolinas, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. This is the utility we track here, not necessarily the only one serving it — 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 — Swain County, NC
Last significant outage: Sep 24, 2026 — peaked at 2,042 customers, restored in ~4 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 13 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 7.3 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 23, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Swain County, NC
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
411 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~4.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is longer than the North Carolina norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3 hr.
Largest on record: ~7,560 customers out in February 2020, restored after about 2.8 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2025.
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 Swain County include Bryson City, Cherokee and Forneys Creek. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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