County annual report · FIPS 37019
2020 Brunswick County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Brunswick County, NC went without power for an average of 15.9 hours, a total of 1.3M customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 526th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Brunswick County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 3, 2020 19:45 | August 11, 2020 23:15 | 8d 3h | 52,735 | 1.1M |
| 2 | April 2, 2020 15:30 | April 2, 2020 17:00 | 1h 30m | 49,041 | 53K |
| 3 | August 27, 2020 03:30 | August 27, 2020 05:00 | 1h 30m | 4,426 | 4,403 |
| 4 | February 7, 2020 04:45 | February 8, 2020 05:15 | 1d | 3,962 | 28K |
| 5 | February 14, 2020 09:30 | February 14, 2020 11:30 | 2h | 2,832 | 1,484 |
| 6 | July 14, 2020 10:30 | July 14, 2020 11:15 | 45m | 2,596 | 1,946 |
| 7 | June 15, 2020 19:00 | June 15, 2020 19:15 | 15m | 2,247 | 562 |
| 8 | March 10, 2020 07:15 | March 10, 2020 17:15 | 10h | 2,165 | 6,036 |
| 9 | April 13, 2020 08:15 | April 14, 2020 01:45 | 17h 30m | 1,942 | 3,990 |
| 10 | November 12, 2020 17:45 | November 12, 2020 21:30 | 3h 45m | 1,601 | 4,111 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 70 reached 100+ customers, 21 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 2020, 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) | 2020 | 5.2 hrs | 1.81 | 2.3 hrs | 1.37 |
| Brunswick Electric Member Corp | 2020 | 10.7 hrs | 1.61 | 40 min | 0.57 |
| 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 91% of North Carolina's customers in 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/north-carolina/brunswick-county