Bladen County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Bladen County, North Carolina had 16 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.22 times the US outage time per person and 2.62 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 6 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.8major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

120 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 80% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 15, 2018, reached 11,031 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 120.5 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	77,543	29	3
2016	630,938	18	1
2017	21,933	15	0
2018	994,596	28	2
2019	50,198	15	2
2020	103,134	31	2
2021	71,031	23	2
2022	133,734	37	3
2023	26,102	24	1

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Sep 15, 2018	120.5	11,031	872,995
Oct 8, 2016	114.8	8,492	611,552
Sep 14, 2018	13.5	10,320	97,367
Aug 4, 2020	14.2	6,156	62,265
Sep 30, 2022	34.0	2,957	45,770

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.