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2019 Robeson County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Robeson County, NC went without power for an average of 4.7 hours, a total of 285K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 69th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1154th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Robeson County, 2019
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 5, 2019 08:45 | September 7, 2019 02:45 | 1d 18h | 11,247 | 144K |
| 2 | April 19, 2019 13:00 | April 20, 2019 13:15 | 1d | 5,933 | 21K |
| 3 | August 15, 2019 05:45 | August 15, 2019 09:45 | 4h | 5,368 | 11K |
| 4 | June 21, 2019 14:45 | June 22, 2019 02:15 | 11h 30m | 3,622 | 980 |
| 5 | June 13, 2019 14:30 | June 13, 2019 21:15 | 6h 45m | 3,564 | 901 |
| 6 | August 23, 2019 13:00 | August 24, 2019 07:00 | 18h | 2,581 | 4,753 |
| 7 | April 12, 2019 16:45 | April 13, 2019 04:15 | 11h 30m | 2,112 | 3,895 |
| 8 | March 6, 2019 14:45 | March 6, 2019 22:30 | 7h 45m | 1,704 | 450 |
| 9 | December 19, 2019 15:30 | December 19, 2019 17:30 | 2h | 1,607 | 403 |
| 10 | March 10, 2019 07:30 | March 10, 2019 09:30 | 2h | 1,578 | 3,147 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 95 reached 100+ customers, 19 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 2019, 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 90% of North Carolina's customers in 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/north-carolina/robeson-county