Union County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Union County, North Carolina had 24 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.45 times the US outage time per person and 0.36 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 87 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.7major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

77 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Sephardest months

April and September made up 26% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 15, 2018, reached 6,514 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 77.2 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated North Carolina counties

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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	140,403	85	1
2016	236,112	85	1
2017	252,690	98	2
2018	561,272	93	4
2019	229,396	69	3
2020	407,266	96	3
2021	160,398	86	1
2022	345,986	80	7
2023	254,550	126	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
Sep 15, 2018	77.2	6,514	176,819
Oct 11, 2018	74.2	20,536	157,600
Apr 13, 2020	37.2	11,992	125,390
May 22, 2020	24.8	14,693	92,185
Jan 7, 2017	20.2	8,958	65,094

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.