Wilson County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Wilson County, North Carolina had 4 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.26 times the US outage time per person and 0.21 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 93 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.4major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

66 hrslongest major outage

May, Octhardest months

May and October made up 39% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 20, 2022, reached 14,278 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 7.5 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	16,554	2	1
2016	74,926	5	1
2017	1,852	3	0
2018	13,963	6	0
2019	26,303	26	0
2020	93,141	59	0
2021	34,631	38	0
2022	161,396	45	2
2023	29,684	49	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
May 20, 2022	7.5	14,278	72,216
Jan 22, 2016	66.0	888	38,966
Oct 8, 2016	64.0	678	34,010
Oct 1, 2020	1.2	25,920	24,018
Oct 30, 2020	7.2	13,355	17,986

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.