Rockingham County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Rockingham County, North Carolina had 42 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.76 times the US outage time per person and 2.25 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 12 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.7major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

124 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Febhardest months

October and February made up 58% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 11, 2018, reached 33,309 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 124.5 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	159,291	62	3
2016	339,683	60	5
2017	291,396	69	7
2018	2,189,784	74	7
2019	547,788	67	5
2020	517,651	66	5
2021	884,224	72	3
2022	586,096	89	6
2023	170,932	81	1

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	124.5	33,309	1,816,381
Feb 13, 2021	85.0	19,333	752,374
Oct 29, 2020	78.5	14,551	423,367
Jan 13, 2019	61.8	20,355	369,196
Sep 30, 2022	46.8	7,508	152,818

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.