Caswell County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Caswell County, North Carolina had 21 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.45 times the US outage time per person and 2.81 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 4 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.3major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

118 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Febhardest months

October and February made up 63% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 11, 2018, reached 10,674 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 118.0 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	90,128	29	2
2016	79,238	35	2
2017	32,375	26	0
2018	714,139	31	4
2019	179,830	28	4
2020	107,244	46	4
2021	344,209	33	1
2022	131,578	63	4
2023	17,072	33	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 11, 2018	118.0	10,674	611,808
Feb 13, 2021	79.0	7,412	324,648
Jan 13, 2019	57.2	5,317	121,964
Sep 30, 2022	39.8	2,510	41,506
Feb 26, 2015	29.0	3,271	35,259

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.