Richmond County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Richmond County, North Carolina had 18 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.01 times the US outage time per person and 1.64 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 26 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.0major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

168 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 61% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 15, 2018, reached 18,446 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 168.2 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	18,986	16	1
2016	398,205	28	3
2017	41,694	48	1
2018	738,204	42	3
2019	19,582	34	0
2020	317,013	57	3
2021	35,022	41	0
2022	208,238	54	5
2023	79,021	36	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
Sep 15, 2018	168.2	18,446	638,228
Oct 8, 2016	94.5	7,444	326,606
Apr 13, 2020	58.0	12,499	223,328
Sep 30, 2022	34.0	3,463	56,584
Jan 16, 2022	33.2	3,900	49,771

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.