County annual report · FIPS 37019
2016 Brunswick County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Brunswick County, NC went without power for an average of 19.1 hours, a total of 1.6M customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 156th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Brunswick County, 2016
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 8, 2016 22:30 | October 14, 2016 10:45 | 5d 12h | 56,178 | 1.4M |
| 2 | April 20, 2016 04:15 | April 20, 2016 06:30 | 2h 15m | 29,768 | 26K |
| 3 | October 19, 2016 20:00 | October 20, 2016 02:00 | 6h | 10,848 | 13K |
| 4 | September 2, 2016 20:15 | September 3, 2016 16:00 | 19h 45m | 6,976 | 38K |
| 5 | September 22, 2016 12:15 | September 22, 2016 22:15 | 10h | 6,811 | 31K |
| 6 | June 29, 2016 03:45 | June 29, 2016 09:45 | 6h | 5,291 | 9,426 |
| 7 | October 8, 2016 07:45 | October 8, 2016 17:45 | 10h | 3,289 | 20K |
| 8 | February 27, 2016 13:15 | February 27, 2016 16:00 | 2h 45m | 3,269 | 3,845 |
| 9 | July 7, 2016 22:15 | July 8, 2016 04:45 | 6h 30m | 2,894 | 9,155 |
| 10 | December 1, 2016 14:00 | December 1, 2016 15:45 | 1h 45m | 1,624 | 1,233 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 70 reached 100+ customers, 19 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Brunswick County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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) | 2016 | 63.5 hrs | 3.55 | 3.0 hrs | 1.63 |
| Brunswick Electric Member Corp | 2016 | 19.4 hrs | 2.57 | 36 min | 0.64 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Southport - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 82,037 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. Brunswick County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Brunswick County, NC annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/north-carolina/brunswick-county