Halifax County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Halifax County, North Carolina had 18 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.52 times the US outage time per person and 0.43 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 83 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.0major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

37 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Junhardest months

October and June made up 40% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 12, 2018, reached 7,286 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 37.0 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.

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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	27,330	17	2
2016	73,500	17	1
2017	15,886	35	0
2018	110,640	22	2
2019	75,159	34	2
2020	72,222	43	3
2021	51,056	44	1
2022	49,044	40	3
2023	66,142	38	4

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 12, 2018	37.0	7,286	82,117
Oct 8, 2016	27.0	3,807	54,797
Jun 20, 2019	19.5	2,051	20,843
Jan 28, 2021	12.5	2,798	15,589
Jun 1, 2019	4.5	4,647	13,090

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.