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2021 Robeson County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Robeson County, NC went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 107K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.3 hours). That ranks 83rd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2339th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Robeson County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 4, 2021 22:00 | May 5, 2021 21:00 | 23h | 4,156 | 12K |
| 2 | July 18, 2021 21:30 | July 19, 2021 18:45 | 21h 15m | 2,811 | 8,326 |
| 3 | November 2, 2021 15:45 | November 2, 2021 16:00 | 15m | 2,132 | 533 |
| 4 | March 16, 2021 10:15 | March 16, 2021 21:30 | 11h 15m | 1,618 | 1,634 |
| 5 | April 26, 2021 18:00 | April 27, 2021 00:30 | 6h 30m | 1,496 | 5,020 |
| 6 | August 7, 2021 10:15 | August 8, 2021 00:45 | 14h 30m | 1,490 | 8,143 |
| 7 | December 8, 2021 16:30 | December 8, 2021 18:15 | 1h 45m | 1,413 | 1,765 |
| 8 | April 14, 2021 12:45 | April 14, 2021 21:45 | 9h | 1,220 | 1,971 |
| 9 | September 29, 2021 16:45 | September 29, 2021 22:30 | 5h 45m | 1,203 | 1,534 |
| 10 | November 23, 2021 14:30 | November 23, 2021 22:30 | 8h | 1,165 | 2,339 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 72 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 2021, 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) | 2021 | 3.1 hrs | 1.39 | 2.4 hrs | 1.34 |
| Lumbee River Elec Member Corp | 2021 | 2.4 hrs | 1.41 | 81 min | 1.07 |
| Brunswick Electric Member Corp | 2021 | 2.7 hrs | 1.38 | 32 min | 0.70 |
| 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 92% of North Carolina's customers in 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/north-carolina/robeson-county