Sampson County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Sampson County, North Carolina had 19 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.19 times the US outage time per person and 2.60 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 7 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.1major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

122 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 82% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 8, 2016, reached 25,275 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 122.5 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	176,443	53	2
2016	1,772,136	71	3
2017	69,392	41	1
2018	1,484,912	45	3
2019	300,658	42	2
2020	132,219	53	1
2021	69,409	23	1
2022	154,842	64	3
2023	75,964	48	3

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	122.5	25,275	1,684,832
Sep 16, 2018	106.2	14,222	646,526
Sep 15, 2018	30.2	28,150	594,890
Sep 5, 2019	22.2	14,896	218,461
Sep 14, 2018	15.0	24,017	180,651

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.