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2022 Brunswick County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Brunswick County, NC went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 253K customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 82nd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1924th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Brunswick County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 2, 2022 07:45 | October 2, 2022 12:45 | 5h | 20,275 | 16K |
| 2 | October 13, 2022 16:45 | October 14, 2022 00:15 | 7h 30m | 18,982 | 12K |
| 3 | March 12, 2022 13:15 | March 13, 2022 01:30 | 12h 15m | 15,703 | 19K |
| 4 | September 30, 2022 14:15 | October 2, 2022 04:45 | 1d 14h | 15,077 | 96K |
| 5 | October 5, 2022 09:15 | October 5, 2022 10:30 | 1h 15m | 15,057 | 7,529 |
| 6 | July 24, 2022 11:15 | July 24, 2022 19:00 | 7h 45m | 6,400 | 5,294 |
| 7 | July 3, 2022 16:30 | July 4, 2022 05:45 | 13h 15m | 2,543 | 5,254 |
| 8 | January 16, 2022 07:30 | January 16, 2022 12:15 | 4h 45m | 2,210 | 2,251 |
| 9 | November 5, 2022 04:15 | November 5, 2022 10:15 | 6h | 2,167 | 9,752 |
| 10 | January 30, 2022 10:00 | January 30, 2022 15:45 | 5h 45m | 2,126 | 2,327 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 95 reached 100+ customers, 27 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 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 2022, 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) | 2022 | 9.8 hrs | 2.35 | 2.2 hrs | 1.26 |
| Brunswick Electric Member Corp | 2022 | 2.0 hrs | 1.27 | 35 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 92% of North Carolina's customers in 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/north-carolina/brunswick-county