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2024 Brunswick County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Brunswick County, NC went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 108K customer-hours (North Carolina average 66.1 hours). That ranks 93rd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2618th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Brunswick County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 23, 2024 13:00 | July 23, 2024 20:00 | 7h | 21,897 | 16K |
| 2 | October 17, 2024 14:45 | October 17, 2024 17:45 | 3h | 7,845 | 1,967 |
| 3 | September 16, 2024 11:30 | September 18, 2024 20:00 | 2d 8h | 6,596 | 15K |
| 4 | May 15, 2024 11:00 | May 15, 2024 19:15 | 8h 15m | 3,819 | 2,036 |
| 5 | August 17, 2024 23:30 | August 18, 2024 00:45 | 1h 15m | 3,678 | 4,218 |
| 6 | January 6, 2024 21:30 | January 6, 2024 23:30 | 2h | 1,883 | 1,889 |
| 7 | December 4, 2024 10:15 | December 4, 2024 22:45 | 12h 30m | 1,792 | 2,834 |
| 8 | June 25, 2024 10:45 | June 25, 2024 11:00 | 15m | 1,780 | 445 |
| 9 | June 12, 2024 18:15 | June 12, 2024 21:00 | 2h 45m | 1,778 | 1,335 |
| 10 | December 26, 2024 12:45 | December 26, 2024 17:45 | 5h | 1,760 | 1,859 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 73 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 Brunswick County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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) | 2024 | 17.2 hrs | 1.70 | 2.2 hrs | 1.22 |
| Brunswick Electric Member Corp | 2024 | 44 min | 0.85 | 31 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 n/a of North Carolina's customers in 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/north-carolina/brunswick-county