Martin County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Martin County, North Carolina had 9 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.06 times the US outage time per person and 0.86 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 56 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

70 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Aughardest months

October and August made up 58% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 8, 2016, reached 4,801 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 70.5 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	6,971	9	0
2016	192,510	23	2
2017	7,309	10	0
2018	19,975	19	1
2019	59,520	13	3
2020	142,194	15	1
2021	19,494	22	0
2022	34,209	20	2
2023	18,465	19	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
Oct 8, 2016	70.5	4,801	147,406
Aug 4, 2020	38.2	9,474	120,756
Sep 6, 2019	35.5	3,207	40,178
Nov 9, 2016	15.8	1,908	28,041
Dec 23, 2022	13.5	1,886	12,289

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.