Pamlico County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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Pamlico County, North Carolina had 10 major outages from 2015 to 2023

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We show this record but do not rank it because the history is short, the population is very small, or customer counts look too high for the population. Treat these numbers with caution. Data confidence: Low, with 9 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

160 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 82% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 15, 2018, reached 10,719 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 159.5 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	10,931	8	1
2016	119,552	9	1
2017	10,652	10	0
2018	1,076,592	55	3
2019	235,329	27	2
2020	67,903	18	1
2021	7,812	10	0
2022	50,752	15	0
2023	83,187	23	2

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 15, 2018	159.5	10,719	780,497
Sep 13, 2018	26.5	10,506	194,112
Sep 6, 2019	55.2	7,395	188,342
Oct 8, 2016	76.2	3,035	111,357
Oct 11, 2018	24.2	3,317	52,257

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.
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