Lincoln County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Lincoln County, North Carolina had 20 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.53 times the US outage time per person and 0.44 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 81 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.2major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

56 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Aughardest months

October and August made up 41% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 11, 2018, reached 6,008 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 56.0 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	94,567	32	2
2016	85,249	39	2
2017	36,910	26	0
2018	233,271	37	2
2019	48,483	30	1
2020	203,366	48	5
2021	41,838	29	0
2022	185,168	72	3
2023	219,217	52	5

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	56.0	6,008	137,390
Oct 29, 2020	54.8	8,551	100,636
Nov 28, 2023	6.0	10,486	53,629
Jan 3, 2022	22.2	3,342	46,876
Aug 7, 2023	13.0	4,107	42,998

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.