Scotland County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Scotland County, North Carolina had 23 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.48 times the US outage time per person and 2.02 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 18 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.6major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

139 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 70% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 15, 2018, reached 10,690 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 138.8 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	57,481	20	2
2016	610,272	39	4
2017	21,592	31	0
2018	816,001	31	4
2019	36,853	31	1
2020	60,971	33	2
2021	49,287	30	2
2022	158,278	27	6
2023	38,570	27	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	138.8	10,690	754,764
Oct 8, 2016	122.5	7,066	399,306
Jan 22, 2016	52.0	5,977	154,132
Sep 30, 2022	46.2	2,156	49,578
Jan 16, 2022	29.2	2,991	41,168

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.