Currituck County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Currituck County, North Carolina had 12 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.19 times the US outage time per person and 1.79 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 23 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.3major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

94 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Sephardest months

October and September made up 76% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 9, 2016, reached 14,968 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 94.0 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	11,496	20	0
2016	782,417	29	3
2017	26,385	27	0
2018	68,559	37	4
2019	431,597	30	1
2020	141,018	36	2
2021	28,410	29	0
2022	13,726	17	0
2023	51,523	26	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
Oct 9, 2016	94.0	14,968	640,515
Sep 6, 2019	56.0	15,073	390,177
Sep 3, 2016	27.2	7,575	104,432
Aug 4, 2020	38.5	7,570	97,100
Jul 5, 2023	17.5	7,536	24,957

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.