Tyrrell County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2016 to 2023

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Tyrrell County, North Carolina had 6 major outages from 2016 to 2023

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We show this record but do not rank it because the history is short, the population is very small, or customer counts look too high for the population. Treat these numbers with caution. Data confidence: Low, with 8 years of records.

0.8major outages per year

5 of 8years with a major outage

84 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 64% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 9, 2016, reached 1,998 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 83.5 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2016	118,581	8	2
2017	60,004	5	1
2018	1,963	3	0
2019	89,264	6	1
2020	21,287	10	1
2021	3,327	4	0
2022	7,537	7	0
2023	4,449	3	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 9, 2016	83.5	1,998	90,670
Sep 6, 2019	57.0	2,393	79,927
Jan 7, 2017	25.5	2,376	57,798
Sep 3, 2016	24.8	1,176	16,843
Jan 15, 2019	3.5	1,860	6,274

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.
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