Iredell County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Iredell County, North Carolina had 21 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.65 times the US outage time per person and 0.53 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 78 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.3major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

81 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Aughardest months

October and August made up 47% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 29, 2020, reached 33,405 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 81.0 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	108,666	65	1
2016	156,848	69	3
2017	94,086	70	0
2018	420,193	100	3
2019	219,506	62	4
2020	874,723	115	4
2021	138,889	81	1
2022	370,199	105	3
2023	568,745	103	2

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 29, 2020	81.0	33,405	613,460
Aug 7, 2023	13.0	23,376	205,851
Oct 11, 2018	52.2	12,951	161,668
Aug 8, 2023	36.0	10,467	139,292
Dec 24, 2022	26.0	9,562	92,218

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.