Swain County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Swain County, North Carolina had 42 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.09 times the US outage time per person and 2.52 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 9 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.7major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

43 hrslongest major outage

May, Janhardest months

May and January made up 28% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 22, 2017, reached 3,705 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 22.8 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	60,559	44	3
2016	60,761	31	5
2017	183,156	43	5
2018	64,188	40	3
2019	45,780	33	1
2020	204,277	54	9
2021	81,663	52	3
2022	166,831	48	9
2023	80,760	39	4

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
Mar 22, 2017	22.8	3,705	55,650
May 28, 2017	41.8	2,839	55,446
May 6, 2022	25.0	3,427	37,135
Apr 1, 2023	35.8	1,458	25,207
Jan 16, 2022	35.0	2,149	24,018

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.