Hertford County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Hertford County, North Carolina had 16 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.82 times the US outage time per person and 0.67 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 65 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.8major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

43 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Junhardest months

August and June made up 45% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 4, 2020, reached 4,964 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 37.5 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	29,079	24	2
2016	53,506	17	1
2017	13,996	16	2
2018	38,890	24	2
2019	73,564	34	2
2020	103,808	19	5
2021	8,773	10	1
2022	12,104	8	1
2023	11,544	13	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
Aug 4, 2020	37.5	4,964	62,039
Oct 8, 2016	43.2	1,934	37,237
Jun 20, 2019	27.0	3,603	34,586
Jun 25, 2018	13.5	5,655	20,928
Feb 7, 2020	26.8	930	11,744

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.