Stanly County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Stanly County, North Carolina had 19 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.73 times the US outage time per person and 0.60 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 71 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.1major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

114 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Sephardest months

December and September made up 34% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 9, 2018, reached 5,547 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 56.2 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	61,503	41	0
2016	89,306	31	2
2017	54,718	42	1
2018	374,305	51	5
2019	19,662	31	0
2020	83,428	52	2
2021	65,286	44	0
2022	242,596	44	7
2023	95,163	55	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
Dec 9, 2018	56.2	5,547	125,804
Oct 11, 2018	56.8	4,337	69,674
Sep 15, 2018	114.0	2,190	68,472
Sep 30, 2022	43.8	3,764	62,519
Dec 24, 2022	27.2	5,579	49,546

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.