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2019 Columbus County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Columbus County, NC went without power for an average of 4.1 hours, a total of 94K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 73rd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1303rd 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 Columbus 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 06:30 | September 7, 2019 22:45 | 2d 16h | 3,199 | 54K |
| 2 | July 3, 2019 14:45 | July 4, 2019 04:15 | 13h 30m | 2,665 | 2,109 |
| 3 | December 19, 2019 15:30 | December 19, 2019 18:15 | 2h 45m | 2,436 | 612 |
| 4 | December 29, 2019 04:30 | December 29, 2019 08:00 | 3h 30m | 1,999 | 2,841 |
| 5 | January 14, 2019 14:30 | January 14, 2019 15:45 | 1h 15m | 1,646 | 823 |
| 6 | June 22, 2019 23:15 | June 23, 2019 07:00 | 7h 45m | 1,277 | 1,546 |
| 7 | June 14, 2019 04:30 | June 14, 2019 07:00 | 2h 30m | 866 | 702 |
| 8 | January 8, 2019 14:30 | January 8, 2019 22:30 | 8h | 844 | 1,975 |
| 9 | August 26, 2019 19:15 | August 26, 2019 21:45 | 2h 30m | 829 | 217 |
| 10 | March 7, 2019 03:30 | March 7, 2019 07:45 | 4h 15m | 825 | 2,481 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 40 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 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 |
| 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 90% of North Carolina's customers in 2019; 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, 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/columbus-county