Power Out Map
– 0% of Scotland out 0 customers out in North Carolina

Power outage history

Scotland County North Carolina

16hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

18th most of 100 in North Carolina 2.5× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Florence · Sep 15, 2018 100% of customers out · 90% back in 4.8 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 16h / yr State average 8.3 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 4.9 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 4hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 5.8days Hurricane Florence, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 84% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2018 3.3 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 10,518 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Scotland's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2018 was the worst well-recorded year, at 3.3 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Scotland, hours without power per customer

ScotlandUS median countyNorth Carolina average
0 20 40 60 80 100 6.2 ’15 60 ’16 3.5 ’17 80 ’18 5.0 ’19 7.1 ’20 5.9 ’21 17 ’22 5.3 ’23 6.8 ’24 3.9 ’25 NC 8.3 US 6.6

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Sep 15, 2018 Hurricane Florence 10,518 100% 5.8 d 4.8 d 755k
Oct 8, 2016 Hurricane Matthew 7,066 67% 5.7 d 4.9 d 402k
Jan 22, 2016 Winter storm 5,977 57% 2.2 d 47 h 154k
Sep 30, 2022 Hurricane Ian 2,156 21% 2.0 d 41 h 50k
Jan 16, 2022 Winter storm 2,991 28% 30 h 24 h 41k
Feb 17, 2015 Winter storm 2,408 23% 38 h 30 h 38k
Jun 16, 2022 Thunderstorms 3,193 30% 10 h 8.5 h 21k
May 4, 2021 Thunderstorms 5,709 54% 11 h 6.0 h 21k
Sep 5, 2019 Hurricane Dorian 2,213 21% 23 h 22 h 19k
Oct 8, 2016 Hurricane Matthew 5,376 51% 6.8 h 13 h 17k
Sep 14, 2018 Hurricane Florence 3,333 32% 16 h 13 h 17k
Apr 13, 2020 Thunderstorms 2,298 22% 14 h 10 h 16k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +14h 90% by +36h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Scotland from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Tropical storm 69%
  • No storm on record 16%
  • Thunderstorms 11%
  • Winter storm 3.2%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Scotland

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole North Carolina territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Duke Energy Progress Investor Owned 183 145 1.41 15.2 1.4M
Lumbee River Elec Member Corp Cooperative 152 100 1.73 14.3 65k
City of Laurinburg NC – – – 11.8 55k
Pee Dee Electric Member Corp Cooperative 285 171 2.72 15.6 19k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across North Carolina

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All North Carolina counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 10,518 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →