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2020 Robeson County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Robeson County, NC went without power for an average of 4.2 hours, a total of 255K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 82nd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1561st of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Robeson County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 13, 2020 11:00 | April 14, 2020 20:45 | 1d 9h | 7,689 | 55K |
| 2 | August 10, 2020 14:15 | August 11, 2020 03:45 | 13h 30m | 4,938 | 1,623 |
| 3 | February 7, 2020 11:00 | February 8, 2020 19:30 | 1d 8h | 4,785 | 20K |
| 4 | May 22, 2020 12:30 | May 24, 2020 07:00 | 1d 18h | 4,019 | 39K |
| 5 | September 22, 2020 20:30 | September 22, 2020 20:45 | 15m | 3,381 | 845 |
| 6 | September 23, 2020 12:30 | September 23, 2020 15:00 | 2h 30m | 3,381 | 853 |
| 7 | February 22, 2020 11:45 | February 22, 2020 23:45 | 12h | 2,685 | 5,140 |
| 8 | February 11, 2020 14:30 | February 11, 2020 21:30 | 7h | 1,850 | 978 |
| 9 | February 3, 2020 00:15 | February 3, 2020 03:15 | 3h | 1,849 | 2,313 |
| 10 | June 22, 2020 19:00 | June 23, 2020 21:45 | 1d 2h | 1,567 | 6,045 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 117 reached 100+ customers, 22 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 2020, 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) | 2020 | 5.2 hrs | 1.81 | 2.3 hrs | 1.37 |
| Lumbee River Elec Member Corp | 2020 | 2.6 hrs | 1.64 | 1.7 hrs | 1.35 |
| Brunswick Electric Member Corp | 2020 | 10.7 hrs | 1.61 | 40 min | 0.57 |
| 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 91% of North Carolina's customers in 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/north-carolina/robeson-county