Dare County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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Dare County, North Carolina had 9 major outages from 2015 to 2023

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We show this record but do not rank it because the history is short, the population is very small, or customer counts look too high for the population. Treat these numbers with caution. Data confidence: Low, with 9 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

103 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 76% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 6, 2019, reached 31,918 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 64.8 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.

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

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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	14,901	13	0
2016	853,426	27	2
2017	181,688	34	2
2018	114,879	37	2
2019	811,584	44	1
2020	138,338	37	2
2021	45,708	33	0
2022	32,571	34	0
2023	29,423	37	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 6, 2019	64.8	31,918	670,708
Oct 9, 2016	103.2	20,894	643,808
Sep 3, 2016	28.0	15,648	146,974
Jul 28, 2017	13.2	7,700	94,402
Oct 11, 2018	47.8	7,979	63,770

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

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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.
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