Granville County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Granville County, North Carolina had 25 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.31 times the US outage time per person and 1.07 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 45 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.8major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

91 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Octhardest months

February and October made up 48% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 11, 2018, reached 10,204 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 76.5 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	124,467	40	3
2016	154,200	50	6
2017	41,137	41	1
2018	461,485	41	3
2019	100,553	48	2
2020	97,031	77	1
2021	368,832	56	3
2022	303,585	87	5
2023	126,562	92	1

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	76.5	10,204	343,700
Feb 13, 2021	91.2	6,382	283,948
Sep 30, 2022	31.0	5,539	88,954
Dec 9, 2018	44.5	3,048	54,098
Feb 26, 2015	21.5	4,176	46,142

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.