Haywood County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Haywood County, North Carolina had 28 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.20 times the US outage time per person and 0.98 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 48 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.1major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

92 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Julhardest months

December and July made up 47% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 9, 2018, reached 9,963 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 91.5 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	81,341	68	1
2016	66,753	40	2
2017	80,871	35	3
2018	477,424	42	1
2019	134,889	74	5
2020	326,854	100	3
2021	131,382	50	4
2022	140,791	81	4
2023	225,804	85	5

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
Dec 9, 2018	91.5	9,963	414,052
Jul 4, 2020	7.5	28,871	154,802
Apr 1, 2023	27.0	12,366	57,240
Mar 3, 2023	30.0	3,224	44,396
Aug 17, 2021	28.8	4,183	41,926

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.