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2018 Columbus County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Columbus County, NC went without power for an average of 98.2 hours, a total of 2.2M customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 52nd 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 Columbus 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 26, 2018 23:45 | 11d 19h | 28,889 | 1.9M |
| 2 | September 13, 2018 22:15 | September 14, 2018 21:45 | 23h 30m | 28,078 | 252K |
| 3 | July 12, 2018 07:00 | July 12, 2018 08:15 | 1h 15m | 1,737 | 1,535 |
| 4 | August 3, 2018 17:00 | August 3, 2018 21:15 | 4h 15m | 1,683 | 1,282 |
| 5 | January 7, 2018 12:45 | January 7, 2018 17:45 | 5h | 1,651 | 1,666 |
| 6 | September 13, 2018 15:00 | September 13, 2018 21:30 | 6h 30m | 1,270 | 2,486 |
| 7 | October 11, 2018 11:45 | October 12, 2018 18:15 | 1d 6h | 1,209 | 11K |
| 8 | October 28, 2018 01:45 | October 28, 2018 07:45 | 6h | 1,170 | 298 |
| 9 | April 15, 2018 23:15 | April 16, 2018 17:15 | 18h | 1,167 | 9,606 |
| 10 | September 4, 2018 09:00 | September 4, 2018 14:00 | 5h | 1,120 | 1,436 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 63 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Columbus 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 |
| 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 82% of North Carolina's customers in 2018; 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, 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/columbus-county