Alleghany County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Alleghany County, North Carolina had 3 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.67 times the US outage time per person and 0.55 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 76 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.3major outages per year

2 of 9years with a major outage

50 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Novhardest months

October and November made up 62% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 23, 2017, reached 3,516 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 27.5 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	176	2	0
2016	17,010	15	0
2017	56,416	13	2
2018	52,491	17	1
2019	6,992	11	0
2020	3,274	11	0
2021	7,621	12	0
2022	16,673	24	0
2023	8,335	9	0

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
Oct 23, 2017	27.5	3,516	50,136
Nov 15, 2018	49.5	2,518	45,348
Sep 13, 2016	2.0	5,385	5,994
Jul 9, 2016	5.0	1,483	5,514
Mar 2, 2023	2.0	3,733	3,361

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.