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2018 Robeson County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Robeson County, NC went without power for an average of 52.1 hours, a total of 3.2M customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 117th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Robeson County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 15, 2018 04:00 | September 27, 2018 08:45 | 12d 4h | 35,665 | 2.9M |
| 2 | September 13, 2018 22:00 | September 14, 2018 21:45 | 23h 45m | 17,825 | 122K |
| 3 | October 3, 2018 18:45 | October 3, 2018 23:00 | 4h 15m | 13,175 | 23K |
| 4 | June 24, 2018 20:30 | June 25, 2018 19:45 | 23h 15m | 2,025 | 9,824 |
| 5 | October 11, 2018 09:15 | October 12, 2018 21:00 | 1d 11h | 2,001 | 14K |
| 6 | June 25, 2018 20:45 | June 27, 2018 05:00 | 1d 8h | 1,998 | 6,492 |
| 7 | June 2, 2018 22:15 | June 3, 2018 03:30 | 5h 15m | 1,642 | 1,648 |
| 8 | October 22, 2018 08:30 | October 22, 2018 22:15 | 13h 45m | 1,641 | 1,102 |
| 9 | April 15, 2018 17:45 | April 17, 2018 02:00 | 1d 8h | 1,508 | 7,859 |
| 10 | July 5, 2018 12:45 | July 5, 2018 22:15 | 9h 30m | 1,238 | 1,308 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 105 reached 100+ customers, 14 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 2018, 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) | 2018 | 43.0 hrs | 2.71 | 2.6 hrs | 1.33 |
| Lumbee River Elec Member Corp | 2018 | 59.8 hrs | 3.03 | 2.3 hrs | 1.19 |
| Brunswick Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 55.8 hrs | 1.82 | 31 min | 0.46 |
| 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 82% of North Carolina's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/north-carolina/robeson-county