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2020 Scotland County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Scotland County, NC went without power for an average of 7.2 hours, a total of 76K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 73rd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1050th 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 Scotland 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 | March 12, 2020 04:45 | March 12, 2020 10:45 | 6h | 2,989 | 12K |
| 2 | July 21, 2020 20:30 | July 21, 2020 21:00 | 30m | 2,422 | 1,203 |
| 3 | April 13, 2020 11:15 | April 15, 2020 16:30 | 2d 5h | 2,298 | 18K |
| 4 | May 27, 2020 17:00 | May 28, 2020 02:30 | 9h 30m | 1,763 | 2,023 |
| 5 | September 11, 2020 01:30 | September 11, 2020 03:30 | 2h | 1,511 | 1,134 |
| 6 | May 22, 2020 21:45 | May 24, 2020 19:00 | 1d 21h | 1,405 | 13K |
| 7 | August 12, 2020 16:00 | August 12, 2020 18:30 | 2h 30m | 1,231 | 312 |
| 8 | October 29, 2020 12:15 | October 30, 2020 03:00 | 14h 45m | 1,228 | 974 |
| 9 | September 12, 2020 01:30 | September 12, 2020 07:00 | 5h 30m | 1,177 | 5,185 |
| 10 | May 28, 2020 13:00 | May 28, 2020 15:15 | 2h 15m | 986 | 1,671 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 41 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 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 |
| Pee Dee Electric Member Corp | 2020 | 11.4 hrs | 4.54 | 3.6 hrs | 3.02 |
| Lumbee River Elec Member Corp | 2020 | 2.6 hrs | 1.64 | 1.7 hrs | 1.35 |
| 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 91% of North Carolina's customers in 2020; 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, 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/scotland-county