Rowan County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Rowan County, North Carolina had 29 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.04 times the US outage time per person and 0.85 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 57 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.2major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

98 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Aughardest months

October and August made up 44% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 11, 2018, reached 22,195 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 98.5 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	179,139	85	4
2016	222,165	85	3
2017	146,159	66	1
2018	1,164,266	114	3
2019	173,446	66	3
2020	337,594	87	4
2021	161,351	96	1
2022	482,204	100	5
2023	648,853	116	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
Oct 11, 2018	98.5	22,195	846,416
Aug 7, 2023	13.0	18,454	189,405
Aug 8, 2023	34.2	10,384	168,559
Sep 30, 2022	46.8	3,705	104,765
Oct 29, 2020	37.0	7,948	93,577

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.