County annual report · FIPS 37017
2015 Bladen County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Bladen County, NC went without power for an average of 7.4 hours, a total of 86K customer-hours (North Carolina average 7.5 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 367th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bladen County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 17, 2015 02:45 | February 19, 2015 04:45 | 2d 2h | 5,616 | 44K |
| 2 | October 7, 2015 01:00 | October 7, 2015 06:30 | 5h 30m | 5,599 | 3,457 |
| 3 | August 13, 2015 01:15 | August 13, 2015 04:15 | 3h | 5,598 | 7,349 |
| 4 | October 4, 2015 12:45 | October 4, 2015 14:00 | 1h 15m | 2,922 | 2,192 |
| 5 | April 15, 2015 19:30 | April 15, 2015 20:15 | 45m | 1,750 | 444 |
| 6 | September 4, 2015 23:30 | September 5, 2015 03:00 | 3h 30m | 1,335 | 1,355 |
| 7 | September 15, 2015 13:15 | September 15, 2015 23:30 | 10h 15m | 1,327 | 1,977 |
| 8 | November 25, 2015 15:30 | November 25, 2015 15:45 | 15m | 1,324 | 331 |
| 9 | August 16, 2015 18:00 | August 16, 2015 19:30 | 1h 30m | 1,323 | 1,324 |
| 10 | August 6, 2015 18:45 | August 7, 2015 04:45 | 10h | 1,058 | 1,548 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 30 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Bladen County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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) | 2015 | 4.8 hrs | 1.90 | 3.0 hrs | 1.65 |
| Brunswick Electric Member Corp | 2015 | 54 min | 0.84 | 48 min | 0.80 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Four County Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| South River Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 11,706 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. Bladen County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bladen County, NC annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/north-carolina/bladen-county