Henderson County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Henderson County, North Carolina had 50 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.78 times the US outage time per person and 1.45 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 33 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

5.6major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

94 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Dechardest months

April and December made up 33% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 13, 2020, reached 19,644 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 69.0 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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1.5M

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

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	195,363	92	2
2016	293,120	117	8
2017	805,201	89	8
2018	801,489	120	7
2019	729,820	109	8
2020	1,159,515	132	4
2021	217,312	91	5
2022	252,089	120	3
2023	281,066	152	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
Apr 13, 2020	69.0	19,644	588,188
Jan 13, 2019	47.2	21,165	380,970
Dec 9, 2018	94.2	15,685	367,758
Oct 29, 2020	74.0	11,902	309,016
Dec 8, 2017	53.5	8,528	224,396

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.