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2017 Robeson County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Robeson County, NC went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 116K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.0 hours). That ranks 76th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1662nd of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Robeson County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 29, 2017 13:30 | June 29, 2017 15:45 | 2h 15m | 7,341 | 11K |
| 2 | November 12, 2017 07:00 | November 12, 2017 19:15 | 12h 15m | 2,625 | 20K |
| 3 | October 31, 2017 13:15 | October 31, 2017 16:00 | 2h 45m | 2,061 | 3,092 |
| 4 | June 2, 2017 18:30 | June 2, 2017 18:45 | 15m | 1,569 | 392 |
| 5 | August 8, 2017 04:15 | August 8, 2017 09:30 | 5h 15m | 1,480 | 3,308 |
| 6 | May 28, 2017 16:45 | May 28, 2017 19:45 | 3h | 1,345 | 710 |
| 7 | May 30, 2017 02:30 | May 30, 2017 07:15 | 4h 45m | 1,268 | 1,477 |
| 8 | July 5, 2017 11:30 | July 6, 2017 01:30 | 14h | 1,135 | 1,884 |
| 9 | January 18, 2017 16:30 | January 18, 2017 20:30 | 4h | 1,119 | 848 |
| 10 | September 1, 2017 23:15 | September 2, 2017 07:00 | 7h 45m | 1,029 | 1,830 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 91 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Robeson County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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) | 2017 | 3.2 hrs | 1.52 | 2.7 hrs | 1.47 |
| Lumbee River Elec Member Corp | 2017 | 1.8 hrs | 1.17 | 90 min | 1.13 |
| Brunswick Electric Member Corp | 2017 | 45 min | 0.61 | 25 min | 0.36 |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/north-carolina/robeson-county