Edgecombe County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Edgecombe County, North Carolina had 9 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.27 times the US outage time per person and 0.22 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 92 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

61 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Janhardest months

September and January made up 35% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 8, 2016, reached 1,378 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 26.2 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	20,272	14	0
2016	75,333	14	2
2017	2,254	3	0
2018	12,910	8	0
2019	26,751	16	1
2020	31,544	21	3
2021	12,542	12	0
2022	57,467	29	2
2023	55,897	30	1

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 8, 2016	26.2	1,378	28,550
Jan 23, 2016	61.2	689	27,492
Sep 30, 2022	22.0	1,326	22,567
May 22, 2023	6.5	4,195	15,964
Feb 26, 2015	32.8	381	11,234

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.