Stokes County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Stokes County, North Carolina had 39 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.18 times the US outage time per person and 1.78 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 24 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.3major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

100 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Janhardest months

October and January made up 55% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 29, 2020, reached 13,632 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 100.0 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.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	60,846	38	3
2016	92,484	29	3
2017	80,469	39	3
2018	481,897	51	7
2019	358,793	47	3
2020	615,440	47	4
2021	123,056	54	6
2022	350,549	48	9
2023	39,276	40	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 29, 2020	100.0	13,632	531,556
Jan 13, 2019	61.2	10,451	280,446
Oct 11, 2018	73.2	9,036	277,686
Sep 30, 2022	47.2	6,846	157,977
Dec 9, 2018	30.5	3,248	69,535

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.