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2016 Robeson County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Robeson County, NC went without power for an average of 70.6 hours, a total of 4.3M customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 33rd of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Robeson County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 8, 2016 22:30 | October 22, 2016 08:45 | 13d 10h | 43,321 | 3.9M |
| 2 | October 8, 2016 09:45 | October 8, 2016 17:45 | 8h | 10,088 | 29K |
| 3 | September 2, 2016 17:45 | September 4, 2016 02:45 | 1d 9h | 6,504 | 79K |
| 4 | July 19, 2016 09:15 | July 21, 2016 19:15 | 2d 10h | 4,945 | 34K |
| 5 | September 23, 2016 13:15 | September 24, 2016 00:30 | 11h 15m | 4,476 | 14K |
| 6 | July 8, 2016 23:45 | July 10, 2016 02:00 | 1d 2h | 2,968 | 21K |
| 7 | August 16, 2016 06:45 | August 16, 2016 07:15 | 30m | 2,794 | 1,157 |
| 8 | February 24, 2016 17:15 | February 26, 2016 05:00 | 1d 11h | 2,622 | 16K |
| 9 | April 1, 2016 21:00 | April 1, 2016 22:15 | 1h 15m | 2,556 | 643 |
| 10 | January 22, 2016 18:00 | January 25, 2016 05:00 | 2d 11h | 2,543 | 43K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 129 reached 100+ customers, 25 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Robeson County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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) | 2016 | 63.5 hrs | 3.55 | 3.0 hrs | 1.63 |
| Lumbee River Elec Member Corp | 2016 | 60.3 hrs | 3.58 | 2.2 hrs | 1.50 |
| Brunswick Electric Member Corp | 2016 | 19.4 hrs | 2.57 | 36 min | 0.64 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lumberton - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Red Springs - (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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 60,455 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. Robeson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Robeson County, NC annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/north-carolina/robeson-county