Johnston County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Johnston County, North Carolina had 30 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.16 times the US outage time per person and 0.95 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 51 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.3major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

121 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Sephardest months

October and September made up 55% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 8, 2016, reached 39,337 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 121.2 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated North Carolina counties

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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	138,261	86	1
2016	3,247,808	124	6
2017	100,336	70	0
2018	1,345,367	107	6
2019	296,393	98	5
2020	280,231	112	3
2021	151,289	110	1
2022	576,138	114	4
2023	264,832	105	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 8, 2016	121.2	39,337	1,947,282
Jan 22, 2016	70.8	30,913	1,049,987
Sep 15, 2018	30.2	28,356	568,861
Sep 30, 2022	55.5	12,116	222,304
Sep 16, 2018	76.0	6,386	200,746

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.