Yadkin County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.43 times the US outage time per person and 1.16 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 42 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

54 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Julhardest months

October and July made up 46% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 29, 2020, reached 16,980 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 53.8 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	16,111	19	0
2016	142,309	33	3
2017	94,484	29	2
2018	80,134	31	1
2019	107,757	32	2
2020	373,429	43	4
2021	78,674	34	0
2022	153,038	44	4
2023	147,604	41	4

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 29, 2020	53.8	16,980	289,960
Jul 9, 2016	44.0	2,574	69,106
Jan 13, 2019	40.0	4,850	58,168
Jul 17, 2022	14.5	4,839	48,315
Oct 11, 2018	26.2	4,407	42,300

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.