Lee County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Lee County, North Carolina had 44 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.49 times the US outage time per person and 1.21 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 41 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.9major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

98 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Sephardest months

October and September made up 52% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 8, 2016, reached 13,468 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 97.5 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	57,795	40	2
2016	648,595	47	2
2017	151,364	43	1
2018	481,649	92	5
2019	48,045	43	1
2020	182,878	69	5
2021	310,345	68	20
2022	244,138	54	6
2023	121,911	72	2

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	97.5	13,468	580,391
Sep 15, 2018	30.2	9,775	179,504
Sep 30, 2022	44.2	5,291	95,569
Oct 11, 2018	33.0	5,414	71,914
Apr 13, 2020	32.8	8,972	64,967

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.