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2022 Bladen County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Bladen County, NC went without power for an average of 12.6 hours, a total of 148K customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 538th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bladen County, 2022
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 24, 2022 12:00 | December 25, 2022 06:45 | 18h 45m | 6,733 | 44K |
| 2 | December 23, 2022 13:45 | December 24, 2022 02:45 | 13h | 3,627 | 17K |
| 3 | September 30, 2022 13:15 | October 2, 2022 19:45 | 2d 6h | 2,957 | 48K |
| 4 | June 18, 2022 00:15 | June 18, 2022 05:45 | 5h 30m | 2,247 | 2,207 |
| 5 | January 3, 2022 11:45 | January 4, 2022 01:00 | 13h 15m | 1,494 | 6,127 |
| 6 | June 29, 2022 05:30 | June 29, 2022 11:45 | 6h 15m | 1,280 | 6,095 |
| 7 | January 16, 2022 14:30 | January 17, 2022 13:15 | 22h 45m | 754 | 1,971 |
| 8 | February 3, 2022 16:15 | February 3, 2022 17:45 | 1h 30m | 636 | 636 |
| 9 | September 29, 2022 18:45 | September 29, 2022 20:00 | 1h 15m | 559 | 559 |
| 10 | June 16, 2022 19:15 | June 17, 2022 01:30 | 6h 15m | 516 | 566 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 42 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 2022, 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) | 2022 | 9.8 hrs | 2.35 | 2.2 hrs | 1.26 |
| Brunswick Electric Member Corp | 2022 | 2.0 hrs | 1.27 | 35 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 92% of North Carolina's customers in 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/north-carolina/bladen-county