When will the power be back in Bladen County, NC?
See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · North Carolina
10
customers reported out in Bladen County, NC
Reported as one combined county-wide total by South River Electric Membership Corp · county-wide data
Combined from the live data of the utilities serving this county — the slower nationwide tally shows 35.
County-wide restoration outlook: grew sharply just now — past outages here of any size ran ~9 hr start to finish (5 on record)
County-wide data — your specific neighborhood or circuit may be restored earlier or later.
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Updated 11:37 PM EDT.
2535 county-wide trend of customers without power · last 60 min · tap or hover a point to see its number
Communities with reported outages — from the utilities that publish city-by-city detail for this county
South River — 10 customers reported out
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Who serves Bladen County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Duke Energy Carolinas and NC Electric Cooperatives, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider. For the parent company's combined picture, see Duke Energy outages across every state it serves.
Outage history — Bladen County, NC
Last significant outage: Sep 5, 2026 — peaked at 2,214 customers, restored in ~11.5 hr (heat event).
Across the 5 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 8.7 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 10, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Bladen County, NC
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
239 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 2 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~1.8 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is shorter than the North Carolina norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3 hr.
Largest on record: ~11,031 customers out in September 2018, restored after about 4.9 days. The busiest year on record here was 2020.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Communities covered
Communities in Bladen County include Elizabethtown, Bladenboro, White Lake, Clarkton, East Arcadia, Dublin, Tar Heel and Butters. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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