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2015 Columbus County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Columbus County, NC went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 50K customer-hours (North Carolina average 7.5 hours). That ranks 70th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 1172nd of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Columbus County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 20, 2015 15:15 | October 20, 2015 16:00 | 45m | 3,152 | 1,586 |
| 2 | December 18, 2015 18:15 | December 18, 2015 22:15 | 4h | 3,078 | 2,614 |
| 3 | July 23, 2015 20:45 | July 24, 2015 07:45 | 11h | 1,735 | 2,185 |
| 4 | June 25, 2015 00:45 | June 25, 2015 10:45 | 10h | 1,497 | 4,445 |
| 5 | January 8, 2015 04:15 | January 8, 2015 07:30 | 3h 15m | 1,269 | 2,300 |
| 6 | August 8, 2015 22:15 | August 8, 2015 23:30 | 1h 15m | 1,150 | 1,437 |
| 7 | February 15, 2015 05:15 | February 15, 2015 08:15 | 3h | 1,149 | 1,169 |
| 8 | February 2, 2015 12:30 | February 2, 2015 21:00 | 8h 30m | 948 | 1,319 |
| 9 | May 21, 2015 20:45 | May 22, 2015 13:45 | 17h | 899 | 5,029 |
| 10 | January 12, 2015 09:15 | January 12, 2015 12:00 | 2h 45m | 881 | 1,200 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 42 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Columbus County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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) | 2015 | 4.8 hrs | 1.90 | 3.0 hrs | 1.65 |
| Brunswick Electric Member Corp | 2015 | 54 min | 0.84 | 48 min | 0.80 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Four County 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 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 22,736 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. Columbus County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Columbus County, NC annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/north-carolina/columbus-county