County annual report · FIPS 37017
2020 Bladen County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Bladen County, NC went without power for an average of 10.3 hours, a total of 120K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 769th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bladen County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 3, 2020 23:15 | August 4, 2020 23:45 | 1d | 6,156 | 63K |
| 2 | May 22, 2020 23:00 | May 23, 2020 11:30 | 12h 30m | 3,583 | 8,199 |
| 3 | August 9, 2020 21:00 | August 10, 2020 03:30 | 6h 30m | 3,455 | 1,826 |
| 4 | April 10, 2020 23:00 | April 13, 2020 21:15 | 2d 22h | 3,218 | 5,683 |
| 5 | May 23, 2020 12:30 | May 26, 2020 10:15 | 2d 21h | 2,612 | 5,016 |
| 6 | November 12, 2020 17:45 | November 13, 2020 02:45 | 9h | 2,609 | 901 |
| 7 | May 29, 2020 18:30 | May 29, 2020 21:45 | 3h 15m | 1,570 | 1,234 |
| 8 | December 27, 2020 11:00 | December 27, 2020 16:45 | 5h 45m | 1,129 | 3,881 |
| 9 | February 7, 2020 11:45 | February 8, 2020 16:45 | 1d 5h | 1,026 | 5,882 |
| 10 | August 29, 2020 20:00 | August 30, 2020 02:30 | 6h 30m | 917 | 2,462 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 41 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 2020, 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) | 2020 | 5.2 hrs | 1.81 | 2.3 hrs | 1.37 |
| Brunswick Electric Member Corp | 2020 | 10.7 hrs | 1.61 | 40 min | 0.57 |
| 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 91% of North Carolina's customers in 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/north-carolina/bladen-county