Wake County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Wake County, North Carolina had 20 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.77 times the US outage time per person and 0.63 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 69 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.2major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

98 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Sephardest months

October and September made up 44% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 8, 2016, reached 119,303 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 98.2 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.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	1,717,820	288	2
2016	7,488,457	335	2
2017	538,740	330	0
2018	2,724,550	354	4
2019	1,040,984	321	2
2020	1,410,735	401	3
2021	536,818	341	0
2022	3,917,338	438	4
2023	1,418,560	427	3

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 8, 2016	98.2	119,303	4,986,181
Jan 22, 2016	69.2	62,541	1,813,124
Sep 30, 2022	51.0	91,342	1,484,129
Feb 26, 2015	48.2	92,954	1,260,482
Oct 11, 2018	68.5	56,985	1,045,631

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.