Washington County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Washington County, North Carolina had 9 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.45 times the US outage time per person and 2.00 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 19 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

76 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 62% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 8, 2016, reached 4,065 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 75.8 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	27,725	12	0
2016	212,374	16	3
2017	45,944	7	1
2018	24,677	43	2
2019	149,252	11	1
2020	73,718	8	1
2021	6,518	9	0
2022	20,112	21	0
2023	14,804	13	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 8, 2016	75.8	4,065	148,266
Sep 6, 2019	65.5	5,654	141,490
Aug 4, 2020	38.8	4,383	65,958
Sep 3, 2016	28.2	3,589	44,795
Jan 7, 2017	33.5	3,074	42,784

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.