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2022 Columbus County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Columbus County, NC went without power for an average of 12.1 hours, a total of 275K customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 568th 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 Columbus 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 | September 30, 2022 09:15 | October 2, 2022 18:45 | 2d 9h | 10,697 | 151K |
| 2 | December 24, 2022 12:00 | December 25, 2022 05:15 | 17h 15m | 8,574 | 54K |
| 3 | December 23, 2022 11:45 | December 24, 2022 03:45 | 16h | 3,989 | 20K |
| 4 | May 19, 2022 16:45 | May 19, 2022 17:45 | 1h | 1,525 | 763 |
| 5 | August 16, 2022 00:15 | August 17, 2022 02:15 | 1d 2h | 1,259 | 4,343 |
| 6 | July 22, 2022 23:00 | July 23, 2022 01:15 | 2h 15m | 1,224 | 1,838 |
| 7 | January 17, 2022 06:00 | January 17, 2022 07:45 | 1h 45m | 1,220 | 2,135 |
| 8 | August 4, 2022 14:45 | August 5, 2022 00:00 | 9h 15m | 1,200 | 3,842 |
| 9 | June 18, 2022 00:45 | June 18, 2022 07:15 | 6h 30m | 1,149 | 2,099 |
| 10 | March 12, 2022 13:45 | March 13, 2022 05:15 | 15h 30m | 1,027 | 7,955 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 48 reached 100+ customers, 10 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 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 |
| 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 92% of North Carolina's customers in 2022; 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, 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/columbus-county