Hoke County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Hoke County, North Carolina had 12 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.24 times the US outage time per person and 1.01 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 46 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.3major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

141 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 69% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 15, 2018, reached 10,102 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 131.5 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	30,591	20	2
2016	425,135	51	3
2017	22,818	29	0
2018	667,037	50	1
2019	25,918	32	0
2020	56,298	46	2
2021	35,261	22	0
2022	197,920	59	4
2023	50,398	31	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
Sep 15, 2018	131.5	10,102	621,142
Oct 8, 2016	141.0	5,189	292,509
Jan 22, 2016	31.2	9,973	77,154
Jan 16, 2022	32.8	5,892	62,415
Sep 30, 2022	30.8	2,830	40,236

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.