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2021 Bladen County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Bladen County, NC went without power for an average of 7.0 hours, a total of 82K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.3 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1035th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bladen County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 21, 2021 01:45 | June 21, 2021 06:00 | 4h 15m | 2,721 | 4,368 |
| 2 | September 1, 2021 15:15 | September 1, 2021 22:00 | 6h 45m | 2,580 | 3,477 |
| 3 | April 2, 2021 23:45 | April 5, 2021 12:45 | 2d 13h | 1,964 | 43K |
| 4 | December 2, 2021 12:30 | December 2, 2021 17:45 | 5h 15m | 1,625 | 1,806 |
| 5 | February 23, 2021 08:15 | February 23, 2021 11:15 | 3h | 1,250 | 3,750 |
| 6 | December 11, 2021 16:30 | December 11, 2021 22:30 | 6h | 797 | 1,053 |
| 7 | August 1, 2021 01:15 | August 2, 2021 07:15 | 1d 6h | 647 | 9,625 |
| 8 | December 19, 2021 20:15 | December 19, 2021 21:30 | 1h 15m | 580 | 146 |
| 9 | July 29, 2021 01:15 | July 29, 2021 06:45 | 5h 30m | 553 | 1,176 |
| 10 | August 16, 2021 09:15 | August 16, 2021 11:00 | 1h 45m | 551 | 180 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 33 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 2021, 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) | 2021 | 3.1 hrs | 1.39 | 2.4 hrs | 1.34 |
| Brunswick Electric Member Corp | 2021 | 2.7 hrs | 1.38 | 32 min | 0.70 |
| 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 92% of North Carolina's customers in 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/north-carolina/bladen-county