Cleveland County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Cleveland County, North Carolina had 24 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.56 times the US outage time per person and 0.45 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 79 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.7major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

72 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Julhardest months

October and July made up 40% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 23, 2017, reached 6,713 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 72.5 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	53,560	36	0
2016	113,850	37	4
2017	349,523	34	5
2018	224,829	55	8
2019	71,788	43	2
2020	200,666	61	2
2021	48,282	41	1
2022	69,509	49	0
2023	120,921	51	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
Oct 23, 2017	72.5	6,713	225,860
Oct 29, 2020	60.5	4,619	97,456
Aug 7, 2023	13.0	3,742	34,233
Jun 1, 2018	18.0	5,322	30,624
Sep 12, 2017	24.2	2,024	29,009

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.