Macon County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Macon County, North Carolina had 46 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.49 times the US outage time per person and 2.03 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 17 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

5.1major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

96 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Sephardest months

December and September made up 34% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 11, 2017, reached 7,148 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 96.2 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	100,057	52	3
2016	193,284	36	5
2017	512,942	45	6
2018	279,722	46	4
2019	110,785	60	5
2020	316,230	67	5
2021	93,106	53	2
2022	280,566	63	10
2023	237,167	78	6

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
Sep 11, 2017	96.2	7,148	252,974
Dec 9, 2018	86.8	7,125	202,582
Dec 8, 2017	56.2	7,263	134,288
Oct 29, 2020	63.0	7,147	130,656
Jul 9, 2016	47.5	4,190	98,241

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.