Caldwell County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Caldwell County, North Carolina had 19 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.68 times the US outage time per person and 0.56 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 75 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.1major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

75 hrslongest major outage

Nov, Octhardest months

November and October made up 42% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Nov 24, 2018, reached 13,042 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 62.5 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	47,966	36	0
2016	120,644	49	4
2017	254,059	53	3
2018	409,771	69	4
2019	62,832	45	1
2020	74,619	57	2
2021	56,323	37	1
2022	74,193	63	2
2023	115,978	64	2

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
Nov 24, 2018	62.5	13,042	276,048
Oct 23, 2017	74.8	3,972	117,085
Dec 8, 2017	28.8	5,451	60,668
Jun 25, 2018	24.8	2,738	42,228
Dec 9, 2018	34.0	4,820	42,136

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.