New Castle County, Delaware Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

New Castle County, Delaware had 22 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.47 times the US outage time per person and 1.17 times the Delaware rate. It ranks 1 of 3 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.4major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

94 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Marhardest months

August and March made up 49% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 14, 2017, reached 33,074 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 61.2 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Delaware counties

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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	954,785	235	4
2016	580,065	241	3
2017	922,401	176	2
2018	797,757	201	1
2019	380,981	230	3
2020	1,333,114	197	4
2021	243,611	215	1
2022	258,055	222	1
2023	656,056	218	3

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
Mar 14, 2017	61.2	33,074	615,053
Mar 2, 2018	81.5	44,559	582,216
Aug 4, 2020	61.2	28,933	550,852
Jun 23, 2015	19.5	45,881	426,301
Aug 7, 2020	94.2	16,291	420,555

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.