Hyde County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

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Hyde County, North Carolina had 7 major outages from 2017 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 7 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

4 of 7years with a major outage

72 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 70% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 6, 2019, reached 4,280 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 71.8 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2017	9,974	7	0
2018	128,040	49	3
2019	288,588	32	2
2020	22,059	18	1
2021	22,017	13	0
2022	26,594	25	0
2023	31,596	16	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
Sep 6, 2019	71.8	4,280	195,499
Sep 14, 2018	21.8	2,984	35,512
Sep 9, 2019	23.8	1,766	35,457
Sep 23, 2023	14.8	1,424	18,729
Oct 11, 2018	13.2	2,748	17,029

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.
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