Guilford County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Guilford County, North Carolina had 35 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.36 times the US outage time per person and 1.11 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 43 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.9major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

127 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Febhardest months

October and February made up 54% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 11, 2018, reached 95,814 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 126.8 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	497,818	147	3
2016	418,147	155	3
2017	660,850	163	1
2018	6,985,288	192	4
2019	1,064,184	176	3
2020	1,202,107	181	4
2021	2,248,337	152	3
2022	2,612,309	206	10
2023	1,049,803	261	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	126.8	95,814	5,316,791
Feb 13, 2021	70.5	78,544	1,830,809
Sep 30, 2022	37.0	50,712	1,030,556
Apr 15, 2018	99.2	29,669	875,727
Oct 29, 2020	78.5	40,854	687,285

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.