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2023 Scotland County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Scotland County, NC went without power for an average of 5.3 hours, a total of 56K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.6 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1407th 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 Scotland 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 | August 7, 2023 23:15 | August 8, 2023 09:30 | 10h 15m | 2,022 | 14K |
| 2 | May 2, 2023 23:15 | May 3, 2023 04:15 | 5h | 1,831 | 3,248 |
| 3 | June 16, 2023 00:45 | June 16, 2023 01:15 | 30m | 1,575 | 395 |
| 4 | December 11, 2023 03:45 | December 11, 2023 22:30 | 18h 45m | 1,057 | 2,854 |
| 5 | June 20, 2023 18:15 | June 20, 2023 21:45 | 3h 30m | 1,050 | 1,223 |
| 6 | October 4, 2023 13:45 | October 5, 2023 01:00 | 11h 15m | 982 | 1,587 |
| 7 | November 14, 2023 04:45 | November 14, 2023 18:15 | 13h 30m | 929 | 2,681 |
| 8 | April 30, 2023 16:15 | April 30, 2023 23:00 | 6h 45m | 910 | 1,552 |
| 9 | September 18, 2023 09:15 | September 18, 2023 11:45 | 2h 30m | 794 | 1,789 |
| 10 | December 17, 2023 18:15 | December 18, 2023 12:00 | 17h 45m | 684 | 4,545 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 35 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 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 |
| Pee Dee Electric Member Corp | 2023 | 3.5 hrs | 2.26 | 2.1 hrs | 1.71 |
| Lumbee River Elec Member Corp | 2023 | 2.9 hrs | 1.61 | 2.1 hrs | 1.28 |
| 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 n/a of North Carolina's customers in 2023; 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, 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/scotland-county