When will the power be back in Columbus County, NC?
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No significant county-wide outage reported in Columbus County, NC right now.
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Elsewhere in North Carolina: 477 customers reported out — statewide status.
Updated 5:16 AM EDT.
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Who serves Columbus County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Duke Energy Carolinas and NC Electric Cooperatives, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider. For the parent company's combined picture, see Duke Energy outages across every state it serves.
Outage history — Columbus County, NC
Last significant outage: Sep 24, 2026 — peaked at 365 customers, restored in ~1.5 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 12 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 1.5 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 11, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Columbus County, NC
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
345 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 4 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~2 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is shorter than the North Carolina norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3 hr.
Largest on record: ~28,889 customers out in September 2018, restored after about 5.8 days. The busiest year on record here was 2018.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Communities covered
Communities in Columbus County include Whiteville, Tabor City, Chadbourn, Lake Waccamaw, Brunswick, Fair Bluff, Sandyfield and Bolton. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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