Cumberland County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Cumberland County, North Carolina had 11 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.66 times the US outage time per person and 0.54 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 77 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.2major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

135 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 72% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 15, 2018, reached 35,970 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 134.8 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.

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

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	219,624	68	2
2016	2,013,384	135	3
2017	88,152	56	0
2018	1,893,688	91	2
2019	78,706	61	0
2020	127,722	64	1
2021	83,977	61	0
2022	299,596	73	3
2023	112,561	69	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
Sep 15, 2018	134.8	35,970	1,584,292
Oct 8, 2016	122.2	30,039	1,565,479
Jan 22, 2016	52.2	9,536	167,921
Sep 14, 2018	16.2	22,159	128,092
Jul 3, 2016	49.2	3,565	121,214

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.