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2019 Brunswick County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Brunswick County, NC went without power for an average of 6.8 hours, a total of 559K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 819th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Brunswick County, 2019
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 5, 2019 10:00 | September 7, 2019 21:45 | 2d 11h | 28,455 | 436K |
| 2 | May 12, 2019 13:30 | May 13, 2019 01:30 | 12h | 15,194 | 21K |
| 3 | October 8, 2019 14:45 | October 8, 2019 19:30 | 4h 45m | 7,385 | 11K |
| 4 | October 24, 2019 21:00 | October 24, 2019 22:00 | 1h | 5,168 | 5,167 |
| 5 | June 20, 2019 21:30 | June 21, 2019 07:30 | 10h | 3,961 | 4,511 |
| 6 | November 29, 2019 15:15 | November 29, 2019 21:30 | 6h 15m | 3,824 | 3,860 |
| 7 | September 28, 2019 01:45 | September 28, 2019 02:45 | 1h | 3,375 | 1,849 |
| 8 | May 18, 2019 08:45 | May 18, 2019 17:45 | 9h | 3,236 | 3,119 |
| 9 | August 16, 2019 11:15 | August 16, 2019 18:15 | 7h | 2,755 | 5,837 |
| 10 | May 28, 2019 18:00 | May 29, 2019 00:30 | 6h 30m | 2,317 | 4,365 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 72 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 2019, 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 90% of North Carolina's customers in 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/north-carolina/brunswick-county