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2024 Bladen County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Bladen County, NC went without power for an average of 4.9 hours, a total of 57K customer-hours (North Carolina average 66.1 hours). That ranks 69th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1634th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bladen County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 15, 2024 23:45 | May 16, 2024 03:15 | 3h 30m | 4,065 | 3,073 |
| 2 | June 8, 2024 23:00 | June 9, 2024 06:15 | 7h 15m | 3,988 | 6,547 |
| 3 | January 9, 2024 14:30 | January 10, 2024 22:15 | 1d 7h | 2,164 | 8,578 |
| 4 | August 7, 2024 22:45 | August 9, 2024 02:00 | 1d 3h | 1,508 | 9,918 |
| 5 | October 30, 2024 17:15 | October 30, 2024 18:45 | 1h 30m | 1,212 | 1,515 |
| 6 | August 18, 2024 23:45 | August 19, 2024 11:30 | 11h 45m | 1,211 | 2,207 |
| 7 | November 6, 2024 06:30 | November 6, 2024 08:30 | 2h | 686 | 1,372 |
| 8 | June 28, 2024 19:30 | June 28, 2024 20:00 | 30m | 681 | 341 |
| 9 | October 25, 2024 21:00 | October 25, 2024 21:45 | 45m | 606 | 455 |
| 10 | September 7, 2024 13:30 | September 7, 2024 18:15 | 4h 45m | 589 | 1,632 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 35 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 2024, 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) | 2024 | 17.2 hrs | 1.70 | 2.2 hrs | 1.22 |
| Brunswick Electric Member Corp | 2024 | 44 min | 0.85 | 31 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 n/a of North Carolina's customers in 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/north-carolina/bladen-county