Person County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Person County, North Carolina had 16 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.70 times the US outage time per person and 1.38 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 37 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.8major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

89 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Octhardest months

February and October made up 65% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 13, 2021, reached 14,263 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 89.0 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	76,278	37	3
2016	50,260	39	2
2017	30,856	44	0
2018	430,312	48	3
2019	105,820	40	1
2020	48,528	35	1
2021	555,674	26	2
2022	162,141	41	3
2023	38,481	34	1

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
Feb 13, 2021	89.0	14,263	519,826
Oct 11, 2018	74.0	13,866	370,322
Sep 30, 2022	25.5	5,220	71,623
Jun 20, 2019	24.8	6,687	50,618
Dec 23, 2022	34.2	2,608	36,878

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.