Clay County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2019 to 2023

Clay County, North Carolina had 8 major outages from 2019 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.82 times the US outage time per person and 1.49 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 31 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 5 years of records.

1.6major outages per year

3 of 5years with a major outage

33 hrslongest major outage

Jan, Aughardest months

January and August made up 45% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 11, 2020, reached 4,092 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 28.5 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2019	5,534	9	0
2020	106,731	26	3
2021	29,446	19	0
2022	26,574	29	2
2023	100,217	30	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
Jan 11, 2020	28.5	4,092	48,738
Aug 7, 2023	14.2	5,464	34,122
Oct 29, 2020	33.2	3,131	23,708
Jul 2, 2023	17.2	2,403	16,722
Apr 9, 2020	9.2	2,687	10,712

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.