Brunswick County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Brunswick County, North Carolina had 13 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.75 times the US outage time per person and 2.24 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 13 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.4major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

231 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 81% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 15, 2018, reached 85,376 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 230.8 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.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	32,330	29	0
2016	1,534,281	49	2
2017	80,560	47	1
2018	6,061,664	61	2
2019	527,951	48	1
2020	1,286,115	60	4
2021	244,817	52	1
2022	218,364	67	1
2023	110,123	45	1

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
Sep 15, 2018	230.8	85,376	5,254,789
Oct 8, 2016	69.8	56,178	1,359,514
Aug 4, 2020	77.8	52,735	1,006,317
Sep 14, 2018	16.8	83,140	719,771
Sep 5, 2019	25.8	28,455	421,479

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.