Moore County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Moore County, North Carolina had 28 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.46 times the US outage time per person and 2.82 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 3 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.1major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

142 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Sephardest months

December and September made up 61% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 4, 2022, reached 40,736 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 92.5 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.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	74,649	58	0
2016	1,486,280	63	7
2017	123,082	77	0
2018	1,717,335	80	4
2019	116,148	70	2
2020	267,137	83	1
2021	180,640	63	7
2022	4,104,286	72	5
2023	183,334	73	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
Dec 4, 2022	92.5	40,736	3,159,049
Sep 15, 2018	129.2	27,985	1,366,621
Oct 8, 2016	142.5	20,868	1,146,994
Jan 16, 2022	61.8	18,891	524,584
Sep 30, 2022	47.0	18,125	257,308

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.