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2019 Bladen County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Bladen County, NC went without power for an average of 5.4 hours, a total of 63K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1016th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bladen County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 19, 2019 17:15 | December 19, 2019 17:30 | 15m | 7,055 | 1,764 |
| 2 | July 13, 2019 19:15 | July 14, 2019 03:45 | 8h 30m | 2,888 | 2,235 |
| 3 | September 5, 2019 20:30 | September 6, 2019 23:45 | 1d 3h | 2,457 | 27K |
| 4 | May 31, 2019 19:30 | June 1, 2019 17:00 | 21h 30m | 1,874 | 11K |
| 5 | September 28, 2019 01:30 | September 28, 2019 03:45 | 2h 15m | 1,583 | 1,980 |
| 6 | July 4, 2019 20:30 | July 5, 2019 16:30 | 20h | 1,494 | 2,271 |
| 7 | October 25, 2019 18:00 | October 25, 2019 20:15 | 2h 15m | 1,159 | 2,181 |
| 8 | August 23, 2019 21:45 | August 24, 2019 03:15 | 5h 30m | 1,024 | 2,225 |
| 9 | June 21, 2019 18:15 | June 21, 2019 18:30 | 15m | 543 | 136 |
| 10 | March 8, 2019 14:00 | March 8, 2019 14:15 | 15m | 530 | 133 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 29 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 2019, 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) | 2018 | 43.0 hrs | 2.71 | 2.6 hrs | 1.33 |
| Brunswick Electric Member Corp | 2018 | 55.8 hrs | 1.82 | 31 min | 0.46 |
| 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 90% of North Carolina's customers in 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/north-carolina/bladen-county