Power Out Map
– 0% of Bladen out 0 customers out in North Carolina

Power outage history

Bladen County North Carolina

17hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

16th most of 100 in North Carolina 2.6× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Florence · Sep 15, 2018 94% of customers out · 90% back in 4.5 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 17h / yr State average 8.3 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 5.1 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 5.6days Hurricane Florence, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 80% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2018 3.6 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 11,706 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Bladen's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2018 was the worst well-recorded year, at 3.6 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Bladen, hours without power per customer

BladenUS median countyNorth Carolina average
0 20 40 60 80 100 7.2 ’15 55 ’16 2.6 ’17 86 ’18 5.2 ’19 10 ’20 7.0 ’21 13 ’22 4.0 ’23 4.9 ’24 8.9 ’25 NC 8.3 US 6.6

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Sep 15, 2018 Hurricane Florence 11,031 94% 5.6 d 4.5 d 875k
Oct 8, 2016 Hurricane Matthew 8,492 73% 4.9 d 3.2 d 612k
Sep 14, 2018 Hurricane Florence 10,320 88% 14 h 20 h 97k
Aug 4, 2020 Hurricane Isaias 6,156 53% 14 h 4.8 h 62k
Sep 30, 2022 Hurricane Ian 2,957 25% 37 h 26 h 48k
Dec 24, 2022 No storm report 6,733 58% 14 h 6.5 h 43k
Feb 16, 2015 Ice storm 5,616 48% 33 h 17 h 43k
Apr 2, 2021 No storm report 1,964 17% 2.5 d 2.2 d 43k
Oct 19, 2025 No storm report 4,280 37% 13 h 13 h 35k
Sep 5, 2019 Hurricane Dorian 2,457 21% 20 h 7.0 h 26k
Jun 25, 2025 Thunderstorms 6,560 56% 6.8 h 4.8 h 25k
Dec 23, 2022 No storm report 3,627 31% 11 h 9.2 h 17k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +6h 90% by +14h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Bladen from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Tropical storm 74%
  • No storm on record 20%
  • Thunderstorms 6.1%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Bladen

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole North Carolina territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Duke Energy Progress Investor Owned 183 145 1.41 15.2 1.4M
Brunswick Electric Member Corp Cooperative 41 36 0.64 13.3 108k
South River Elec Member Corp Cooperative 107 85 – 14.6 46k
Four County Elec Member Corp Cooperative 110 82 1.84 15.1 31k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across North Carolina

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All North Carolina counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 11,706 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →