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2023 Robeson County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Robeson County, NC went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 212K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.6 hours). That ranks 72nd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1784th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Robeson County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 22, 2023 05:45 | December 22, 2023 07:00 | 1h 15m | 5,516 | 2,759 |
| 2 | June 29, 2023 07:45 | June 29, 2023 12:45 | 5h | 5,109 | 4,458 |
| 3 | November 24, 2023 16:15 | November 25, 2023 04:15 | 12h | 4,782 | 34K |
| 4 | February 8, 2023 12:45 | February 8, 2023 20:15 | 7h 30m | 4,110 | 1,719 |
| 5 | January 4, 2023 17:15 | January 6, 2023 04:45 | 1d 11h | 3,267 | 20K |
| 6 | August 30, 2023 09:15 | September 1, 2023 01:00 | 1d 15h | 3,161 | 24K |
| 7 | August 1, 2023 11:00 | August 1, 2023 20:45 | 9h 45m | 1,792 | 2,288 |
| 8 | January 22, 2023 15:15 | January 23, 2023 03:00 | 11h 45m | 1,762 | 1,854 |
| 9 | March 27, 2023 15:00 | March 27, 2023 20:30 | 5h 30m | 1,672 | 2,932 |
| 10 | January 20, 2023 16:45 | January 20, 2023 23:30 | 6h 45m | 1,668 | 6,195 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 114 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 2023, 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) | 2023 | 3.7 hrs | 1.47 | 2.4 hrs | 1.22 |
| Lumbee River Elec Member Corp | 2023 | 2.9 hrs | 1.61 | 2.1 hrs | 1.28 |
| Brunswick Electric Member Corp | 2023 | 57 min | 0.89 | 26 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 n/a of North Carolina's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/north-carolina/robeson-county