Craven County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Craven County, North Carolina had 16 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.61 times the US outage time per person and 1.31 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 39 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.8major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

185 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 78% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 15, 2018, reached 16,642 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 185.0 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.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	90,221	32	1
2016	601,786	39	4
2017	27,553	25	0
2018	2,003,473	54	4
2019	340,368	42	1
2020	245,576	46	2
2021	55,414	46	0
2022	176,179	60	2
2023	151,815	57	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	185.0	16,642	1,556,851
Oct 8, 2016	94.8	12,191	473,995
Sep 13, 2018	30.2	17,546	346,579
Sep 5, 2019	49.5	19,061	295,538
Aug 4, 2020	31.8	16,107	160,526

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.