Madison County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.36 times the US outage time per person and 0.30 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 89 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

49 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Aprhardest months

August and April made up 56% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 7, 2020, reached 5,131 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 15.8 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	11,156	3	1
2016	16,017	3	2
2017	2,578	2	0
2018	0	0	0
2019	4,558	8	0
2020	64,190	27	2
2021	20,096	17	2
2022	15,870	20	1
2023	44,622	17	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
Aug 7, 2020	15.8	5,131	45,486
Apr 1, 2023	49.0	1,792	35,843
Oct 26, 2021	15.0	583	8,418
Apr 1, 2016	15.2	554	7,869
Jun 4, 2016	14.8	553	7,352

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.