Franklin County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Franklin County, North Carolina had 26 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.12 times the US outage time per person and 0.91 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 54 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.9major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

94 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Febhardest months

October and February made up 51% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 8, 2016, reached 10,889 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 93.5 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	87,385	36	2
2016	587,997	36	5
2017	47,710	49	1
2018	310,901	53	4
2019	77,660	66	2
2020	332,400	57	4
2021	67,461	42	1
2022	251,831	56	4
2023	196,477	60	3

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	93.5	10,889	388,252
Feb 6, 2020	52.5	15,099	234,984
Oct 11, 2018	68.2	6,213	229,756
Jan 22, 2016	66.8	3,176	127,828
Jun 17, 2022	25.5	6,238	94,461

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.