County annual report · FIPS 37017
2016 Bladen County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Bladen County, NC went without power for an average of 54.9 hours, a total of 643K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 47th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bladen County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 8, 2016 22:30 | October 15, 2016 18:00 | 6d 19h | 8,492 | 614K |
| 2 | May 26, 2016 18:15 | May 26, 2016 22:45 | 4h 30m | 2,906 | 3,673 |
| 3 | July 27, 2016 05:15 | July 27, 2016 07:30 | 2h 15m | 2,902 | 5,115 |
| 4 | February 24, 2016 16:30 | February 25, 2016 22:15 | 1d 5h | 1,839 | 2,436 |
| 5 | January 10, 2016 12:45 | January 10, 2016 14:15 | 1h 30m | 1,743 | 1,749 |
| 6 | September 2, 2016 20:45 | September 3, 2016 22:30 | 1d 1h | 627 | 3,910 |
| 7 | July 19, 2016 20:30 | July 20, 2016 01:15 | 4h 45m | 492 | 886 |
| 8 | January 23, 2016 07:30 | January 23, 2016 09:45 | 2h 15m | 410 | 147 |
| 9 | July 6, 2016 21:00 | July 7, 2016 02:45 | 5h 45m | 258 | 611 |
| 10 | January 22, 2016 22:00 | January 23, 2016 06:30 | 8h 30m | 244 | 1,855 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 22 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 Bladen County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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) | 2016 | 63.5 hrs | 3.55 | 3.0 hrs | 1.63 |
| Brunswick Electric Member Corp | 2016 | 19.4 hrs | 2.57 | 36 min | 0.64 |
| 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 2016; 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, 2016, 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/2016/north-carolina/bladen-county