Vance County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Vance County, North Carolina had 22 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.76 times the US outage time per person and 1.43 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 35 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.4major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

83 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Octhardest months

February and October made up 58% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 13, 2021, reached 15,555 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 83.2 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	64,406	44	3
2016	105,921	26	4
2017	29,806	24	0
2018	466,694	38	4
2019	48,156	27	1
2020	94,520	37	2
2021	516,976	41	2
2022	239,170	43	4
2023	71,418	33	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
Feb 13, 2021	83.2	15,555	440,401
Oct 11, 2018	78.8	10,759	347,378
Sep 30, 2022	42.2	6,306	102,938
Jul 8, 2016	27.5	4,980	57,997
Jan 11, 2022	8.8	7,596	45,115

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.