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2024 Columbus County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Columbus County, NC went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 38K customer-hours (North Carolina average 66.1 hours). That ranks 88th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2511th 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 Columbus 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 | November 14, 2024 15:45 | November 14, 2024 18:00 | 2h 15m | 3,920 | 1,967 |
| 2 | August 7, 2024 20:15 | August 8, 2024 21:30 | 1d 1h | 2,647 | 2,408 |
| 3 | November 18, 2024 12:30 | November 18, 2024 17:15 | 4h 45m | 1,605 | 1,245 |
| 4 | August 22, 2024 12:15 | August 22, 2024 17:45 | 5h 30m | 1,592 | 1,617 |
| 5 | September 27, 2024 07:15 | September 29, 2024 21:00 | 2d 13h | 1,563 | 4,490 |
| 6 | January 9, 2024 17:00 | January 10, 2024 20:45 | 1d 3h | 1,442 | 7,332 |
| 7 | January 30, 2024 14:45 | January 30, 2024 15:15 | 30m | 1,279 | 320 |
| 8 | June 8, 2024 23:15 | June 9, 2024 01:45 | 2h 30m | 752 | 1,155 |
| 9 | July 19, 2024 12:00 | July 19, 2024 23:45 | 11h 45m | 610 | 668 |
| 10 | July 30, 2024 12:30 | July 30, 2024 20:00 | 7h 30m | 451 | 1,091 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 31 reached 100+ customers, 7 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 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 |
| 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 n/a of North Carolina's customers in 2024; 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, 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/columbus-county