County annual report · FIPS 37017
2017 Bladen County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Bladen County, NC went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 31K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.0 hours). That ranks 67th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1444th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bladen County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 23, 2017 09:30 | May 23, 2017 11:15 | 1h 45m | 2,876 | 5,033 |
| 2 | August 3, 2017 22:30 | August 4, 2017 05:00 | 6h 30m | 2,057 | 6,506 |
| 3 | June 24, 2017 23:00 | June 25, 2017 01:00 | 2h | 1,514 | 1,526 |
| 4 | June 19, 2017 13:00 | June 19, 2017 14:30 | 1h 30m | 542 | 136 |
| 5 | August 3, 2017 05:45 | August 3, 2017 11:45 | 6h | 536 | 3,083 |
| 6 | January 9, 2017 02:15 | January 9, 2017 04:30 | 2h 15m | 478 | 644 |
| 7 | July 7, 2017 23:30 | July 8, 2017 01:45 | 2h 15m | 375 | 599 |
| 8 | August 23, 2017 23:30 | August 24, 2017 09:15 | 9h 45m | 275 | 1,203 |
| 9 | October 30, 2017 10:30 | October 30, 2017 14:00 | 3h 30m | 245 | 816 |
| 10 | October 24, 2017 03:30 | October 24, 2017 17:30 | 14h | 232 | 2,319 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 25 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 2017, 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) | 2017 | 3.2 hrs | 1.52 | 2.7 hrs | 1.47 |
| Brunswick Electric Member Corp | 2017 | 45 min | 0.61 | 25 min | 0.36 |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/north-carolina/bladen-county