Avery County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2016 to 2023

Avery County, North Carolina had 11 major outages from 2016 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.53 times the US outage time per person and 0.44 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 81 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 8 years of records.

1.4major outages per year

5 of 8years with a major outage

25 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Aprhardest months

August and April made up 41% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 5, 2018, reached 1,198 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 17.0 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2016	678	1	0
2017	10,634	4	1
2018	27,012	10	1
2019	51,272	17	4
2020	29,942	6	3
2021	39,295	12	2
2022	1,830	2	0
2023	25,547	13	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
Apr 5, 2018	17.0	1,198	20,035
Dec 21, 2020	17.0	1,202	16,556
Aug 17, 2021	25.2	1,255	16,548
Nov 1, 2019	14.0	1,205	16,424
Feb 25, 2019	16.5	961	10,684

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.