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2023 Brunswick County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Brunswick County, NC went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 150K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.6 hours). That ranks 84th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2353rd of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Brunswick County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 26, 2023 15:15 | June 26, 2023 18:15 | 3h | 17,865 | 23K |
| 2 | July 23, 2023 01:45 | July 23, 2023 08:30 | 6h 45m | 17,001 | 22K |
| 3 | March 16, 2023 17:30 | March 17, 2023 01:45 | 8h 15m | 11,401 | 11K |
| 4 | August 30, 2023 18:45 | August 31, 2023 20:45 | 1d 2h | 3,964 | 14K |
| 5 | July 4, 2023 21:45 | July 5, 2023 01:00 | 3h 15m | 2,911 | 2,564 |
| 6 | August 7, 2023 13:30 | August 7, 2023 19:45 | 6h 15m | 2,658 | 4,048 |
| 7 | August 30, 2023 07:30 | August 30, 2023 13:15 | 5h 45m | 2,500 | 7,527 |
| 8 | December 17, 2023 14:15 | December 18, 2023 07:15 | 17h | 2,094 | 7,050 |
| 9 | September 24, 2023 10:45 | September 25, 2023 01:30 | 14h 45m | 2,077 | 5,346 |
| 10 | November 30, 2023 15:45 | November 30, 2023 21:30 | 5h 45m | 1,970 | 1,199 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 71 reached 100+ customers, 19 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 2023, 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) | 2023 | 3.7 hrs | 1.47 | 2.4 hrs | 1.22 |
| Brunswick Electric Member Corp | 2023 | 57 min | 0.89 | 26 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 n/a of North Carolina's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/north-carolina/brunswick-county