Robeson County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Robeson County, North Carolina had 29 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.41 times the US outage time per person and 2.78 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 5 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.2major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

214 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Sephardest months

October and September made up 85% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 8, 2016, reached 43,321 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 214.5 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	352,012	70	3
2016	4,228,477	101	7
2017	90,064	75	1
2018	3,077,984	80	6
2019	242,762	91	2
2020	212,586	100	3
2021	80,269	61	1
2022	440,686	78	4
2023	165,681	89	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 8, 2016	214.5	43,321	3,909,508
Sep 15, 2018	207.2	35,665	2,859,106
Sep 30, 2022	50.5	19,504	285,584
Feb 17, 2015	30.0	8,678	170,570
Sep 5, 2019	25.2	11,247	141,762

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.