County annual report · FIPS 37017
2023 Bladen County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Bladen County, NC went without power for an average of 4.0 hours, a total of 47K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.6 hours). That ranks 68th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1666th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bladen County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 14, 2023 14:00 | April 15, 2023 05:15 | 15h 15m | 2,498 | 2,810 |
| 2 | August 28, 2023 13:15 | August 28, 2023 16:45 | 3h 30m | 2,343 | 689 |
| 3 | January 4, 2023 18:00 | January 5, 2023 00:00 | 6h | 2,319 | 7,735 |
| 4 | December 22, 2023 01:45 | December 22, 2023 03:30 | 1h 45m | 1,562 | 1,368 |
| 5 | August 31, 2023 00:45 | August 31, 2023 20:45 | 20h | 1,409 | 8,722 |
| 6 | January 1, 2023 00:00 | January 3, 2023 12:30 | 2d 12h | 501 | 718 |
| 7 | July 25, 2023 12:15 | July 25, 2023 18:45 | 6h 30m | 483 | 151 |
| 8 | June 27, 2023 10:45 | June 27, 2023 14:15 | 3h 30m | 476 | 122 |
| 9 | June 12, 2023 21:15 | June 13, 2023 00:00 | 2h 45m | 446 | 776 |
| 10 | July 7, 2023 21:30 | July 8, 2023 04:00 | 6h 30m | 439 | 806 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 38 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 2023, 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) | 2023 | 3.7 hrs | 1.47 | 2.4 hrs | 1.22 |
| Brunswick Electric Member Corp | 2023 | 57 min | 0.89 | 26 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 n/a of North Carolina's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/north-carolina/bladen-county