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2017 Columbus County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Columbus County, NC went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 70K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.0 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1310th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Columbus County, 2017
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 24, 2017 01:00 | October 24, 2017 23:15 | 22h 15m | 3,177 | 27K |
| 2 | August 16, 2017 10:45 | August 16, 2017 17:15 | 6h 30m | 2,006 | 3,311 |
| 3 | May 22, 2017 21:45 | May 23, 2017 03:30 | 5h 45m | 1,696 | 1,182 |
| 4 | July 25, 2017 23:30 | July 26, 2017 01:30 | 2h | 1,365 | 1,365 |
| 5 | September 21, 2017 21:15 | September 22, 2017 08:30 | 11h 15m | 1,289 | 6,385 |
| 6 | May 28, 2017 23:15 | May 29, 2017 07:15 | 8h | 1,256 | 3,038 |
| 7 | September 12, 2017 18:15 | September 12, 2017 22:45 | 4h 30m | 1,134 | 2,130 |
| 8 | July 8, 2017 04:15 | July 8, 2017 09:45 | 5h 30m | 1,017 | 1,690 |
| 9 | July 28, 2017 09:30 | July 28, 2017 10:45 | 1h 15m | 790 | 790 |
| 10 | August 17, 2017 17:45 | August 18, 2017 01:00 | 7h 15m | 672 | 761 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 40 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 2017, 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) | 2017 | 3.2 hrs | 1.52 | 2.7 hrs | 1.47 |
| Brunswick Electric Member Corp | 2017 | 45 min | 0.61 | 25 min | 0.36 |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/north-carolina/columbus-county