Bertie County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Bertie County, North Carolina had 12 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.78 times the US outage time per person and 1.45 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 33 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.3major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

64 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Aughardest months

October and August made up 48% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 8, 2016, reached 4,501 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 64.5 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated North Carolina 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	23,295	27	0
2016	150,026	28	1
2017	65,453	45	2
2018	38,613	22	2
2019	108,397	25	2
2020	156,018	38	3
2021	33,623	24	1
2022	53,896	39	1
2023	34,040	34	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 8, 2016	64.5	4,501	130,946
Aug 4, 2020	57.0	5,381	96,730
May 28, 2019	21.0	2,097	43,008
Jun 20, 2019	9.2	2,363	19,116
Feb 21, 2020	22.2	1,879	18,990

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.