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2021 Scotland County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Scotland County, NC went without power for an average of 5.9 hours, a total of 62K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.3 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1166th 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 Scotland 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 22:15 | May 5, 2021 21:45 | 23h 30m | 5,709 | 21K |
| 2 | July 25, 2021 10:30 | July 25, 2021 17:15 | 6h 45m | 2,315 | 4,107 |
| 3 | July 9, 2021 21:45 | July 10, 2021 11:30 | 13h 45m | 1,180 | 3,643 |
| 4 | April 7, 2021 14:00 | April 7, 2021 20:00 | 6h | 1,152 | 907 |
| 5 | May 23, 2021 10:15 | May 23, 2021 11:45 | 1h 30m | 1,137 | 1,593 |
| 6 | April 8, 2021 12:45 | April 8, 2021 18:15 | 5h 30m | 1,133 | 3,685 |
| 7 | June 28, 2021 19:30 | June 28, 2021 23:30 | 4h | 1,039 | 1,713 |
| 8 | July 15, 2021 15:45 | July 15, 2021 16:30 | 45m | 999 | 749 |
| 9 | August 9, 2021 06:45 | August 9, 2021 10:45 | 4h | 999 | 2,008 |
| 10 | August 1, 2021 20:15 | August 2, 2021 12:00 | 15h 45m | 901 | 3,637 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 43 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 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 |
| Pee Dee Electric Member Corp | 2021 | 2.3 hrs | 1.87 | 2.3 hrs | 1.87 |
| Lumbee River Elec Member Corp | 2021 | 2.4 hrs | 1.41 | 81 min | 1.07 |
| 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 92% of North Carolina's customers in 2021; 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, 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/scotland-county