County annual report · FIPS 37165
2016 Scotland County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Scotland County, NC went without power for an average of 59.6 hours, a total of 627K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 42nd 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 Scotland 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 16, 2016 16:00 | 7d 17h | 7,066 | 403K |
| 2 | January 22, 2016 17:30 | January 25, 2016 18:15 | 3d | 5,977 | 155K |
| 3 | October 8, 2016 11:00 | October 8, 2016 17:45 | 6h 45m | 5,376 | 17K |
| 4 | June 4, 2016 18:15 | June 4, 2016 23:45 | 5h 30m | 3,068 | 3,890 |
| 5 | October 27, 2016 01:45 | October 27, 2016 03:15 | 1h 30m | 2,740 | 1,374 |
| 6 | July 9, 2016 02:15 | July 9, 2016 22:30 | 20h 15m | 2,724 | 13K |
| 7 | June 28, 2016 19:45 | June 28, 2016 21:30 | 1h 45m | 1,537 | 1,624 |
| 8 | July 31, 2016 20:15 | July 31, 2016 23:30 | 3h 15m | 1,530 | 1,288 |
| 9 | September 29, 2016 06:45 | September 29, 2016 17:00 | 10h 15m | 1,410 | 2,897 |
| 10 | February 24, 2016 20:15 | February 25, 2016 18:45 | 22h 30m | 1,154 | 2,820 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 47 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Scotland 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 |
| Pee Dee Electric Member Corp | 2016 | 20.7 hrs | 4.41 | 2.9 hrs | 2.36 |
| Lumbee River Elec Member Corp | 2016 | 60.3 hrs | 3.58 | 2.2 hrs | 1.50 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Laurinburg - (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 ÷ 10,518 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. Scotland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Scotland 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/scotland-county