Transylvania County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Transylvania County, North Carolina had 31 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.40 times the US outage time per person and 1.96 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 20 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.4major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

92 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Aprhardest months

December and April made up 52% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 9, 2018, reached 10,779 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 92.2 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	111,986	30	4
2016	28,110	25	1
2017	140,992	28	4
2018	492,288	31	5
2019	171,573	56	5
2020	515,562	69	5
2021	89,465	50	3
2022	117,185	52	2
2023	135,448	58	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
Dec 9, 2018	92.2	10,779	376,136
Apr 13, 2020	67.5	10,446	303,082
Oct 29, 2020	59.0	7,154	119,834
Dec 8, 2017	43.5	2,703	59,710
Jan 13, 2019	41.5	4,015	56,864

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.