County annual report · FIPS 37019
2018 Brunswick County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Brunswick County, NC went without power for an average of 74.3 hours, a total of 6.1M customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 85th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Brunswick County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 15, 2018 04:00 | September 27, 2018 02:15 | 11d 22h | 85,376 | 5.3M |
| 2 | September 13, 2018 15:00 | September 14, 2018 21:45 | 1d 6h | 83,140 | 722K |
| 3 | September 27, 2018 22:30 | September 29, 2018 05:15 | 1d 6h | 4,885 | 6,734 |
| 4 | December 6, 2018 02:30 | December 6, 2018 09:00 | 6h 30m | 4,762 | 3,514 |
| 5 | October 30, 2018 11:00 | October 30, 2018 20:15 | 9h 15m | 4,726 | 6,190 |
| 6 | November 17, 2018 17:45 | November 17, 2018 20:00 | 2h 15m | 4,473 | 6,680 |
| 7 | July 18, 2018 07:15 | July 18, 2018 21:15 | 14h | 3,060 | 2,370 |
| 8 | October 11, 2018 13:45 | October 12, 2018 19:45 | 1d 6h | 3,015 | 12K |
| 9 | October 10, 2018 20:00 | October 11, 2018 02:30 | 6h 30m | 2,631 | 3,986 |
| 10 | January 27, 2018 10:30 | January 27, 2018 18:15 | 7h 45m | 2,387 | 2,398 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 68 reached 100+ customers, 20 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 2018, 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) | 2018 | 43.0 hrs | 2.71 | 2.6 hrs | 1.33 |
| Brunswick Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 55.8 hrs | 1.82 | 31 min | 0.46 |
| 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 82% of North Carolina's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/north-carolina/brunswick-county