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2025 Columbus County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Columbus County, NC went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 48K customer-hours (North Carolina average 9.8 hours). That ranks 82nd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2377th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Columbus County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 29, 2025 15:00 | April 29, 2025 23:15 | 8h 15m | 3,031 | 8,482 |
| 2 | July 14, 2025 12:00 | July 14, 2025 21:30 | 9h 30m | 2,008 | 692 |
| 3 | June 8, 2025 17:45 | June 9, 2025 02:45 | 9h | 1,718 | 2,290 |
| 4 | July 15, 2025 13:15 | July 15, 2025 18:45 | 5h 30m | 1,468 | 391 |
| 5 | June 25, 2025 13:15 | June 26, 2025 05:45 | 16h 30m | 1,299 | 2,056 |
| 6 | July 16, 2025 12:15 | July 16, 2025 23:00 | 10h 45m | 1,145 | 2,254 |
| 7 | July 10, 2025 22:45 | July 11, 2025 07:45 | 9h | 1,017 | 2,199 |
| 8 | August 15, 2025 13:30 | August 15, 2025 18:00 | 4h 30m | 825 | 778 |
| 9 | May 5, 2025 11:15 | May 5, 2025 14:00 | 2h 45m | 670 | 1,006 |
| 10 | February 6, 2025 16:30 | February 6, 2025 19:30 | 3h | 669 | 263 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 48 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 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/north-carolina/columbus-county