Chatham County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Chatham County, North Carolina had 37 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.88 times the US outage time per person and 1.53 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 30 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.1major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

108 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Sephardest months

October and September made up 50% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 11, 2018, reached 17,228 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 98.2 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	319,823	71	3
2016	355,156	66	6
2017	66,537	63	0
2018	1,250,673	114	9
2019	90,553	40	3
2020	475,187	123	8
2021	93,389	69	0
2022	610,273	139	4
2023	209,594	110	4

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	98.2	17,228	676,768
Oct 8, 2016	94.8	11,654	263,602
Sep 30, 2022	28.5	15,475	226,532
Feb 26, 2015	40.0	13,351	210,426
Dec 23, 2022	28.0	15,523	116,250

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.