Wayne County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Wayne County, North Carolina had 14 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.23 times the US outage time per person and 1.01 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 47 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.6major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

188 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Sephardest months

October and September made up 81% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 8, 2016, reached 27,873 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 188.5 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	52,173	56	1
2016	1,546,421	53	3
2017	32,678	38	0
2018	956,146	42	3
2019	240,964	44	3
2020	109,994	47	2
2021	43,906	37	0
2022	157,881	46	2
2023	128,167	58	0

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	188.5	27,873	1,466,376
Sep 15, 2018	30.2	19,546	474,019
Sep 16, 2018	58.5	12,979	317,115
Sep 13, 2018	23.5	17,193	126,051
Dec 24, 2022	12.8	19,927	91,464

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.