Alamance County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Alamance County, North Carolina had 22 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.85 times the US outage time per person and 0.69 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 64 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.4major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

99 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Sephardest months

October and September made up 51% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 11, 2018, reached 26,663 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 99.2 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.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	107,596	55	0
2016	126,626	74	2
2017	90,317	54	0
2018	1,433,743	81	5
2019	147,966	55	2
2020	248,723	86	5
2021	283,558	85	1
2022	800,899	119	6
2023	191,036	97	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 11, 2018	99.2	26,663	1,210,643
Sep 30, 2022	45.0	14,398	289,686
Feb 13, 2021	52.2	6,929	153,920
Jan 3, 2022	38.8	10,964	84,416
Jun 18, 2022	37.8	9,003	74,578

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.