– 0 customers out in the US

September 2018 · 35th largest of 72

Hurricane Florence

At the peak, 845,773 customers were without power, most of them in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia.

Hurricane Florence
Customers out at the peak 845,773 Sep 15, 2018, 9:00 AM
Customer-hours lost 56M Every customer out, times every hour out
Counties with 10%+ out 88 of 204 counties affected
Above 600,000 out nationally 2.1 days Sep 14, 2018, 12:00 PM onward
States affected 40 NC · SC · VA · TX · MA
Hardest-hit county 100%out Brunswick, NC · 82,037 customers

Hour by hour

The country, in the dark

Customers without power across the US, two days either side. The shaded band is the time the national total stayed above 600,000.

0 200k 400k 600k 800k 1.0M Sep 12Sep 13Sep 14Sep 15Sep 16Sep 17Sep 18Sep 19 Peak 846k

By state

Where it hit

StatePeak outShareCounties 10%+
North Carolina 798,672 18% 35
South Carolina 130,171 9% 8
Virginia 22,157 6% 9
Texas 18,758 6% 6
Massachusetts 18,720 9% 0
Florida 18,374 2% 0
Ohio 15,986 5% 1
Kentucky 15,198 12% 6
Pennsylvania 13,102 5% 2
Connecticut 10,449 3% 0
Georgia 10,078 4% 4
Indiana 9,597 18% 2
New Jersey 9,151 3% 0
Tennessee 8,945 2% 0
Louisiana 7,675 9% 1
Alabama 6,879 3% 1
Hawaii 6,390 2% 0
New York 6,034 3% 1
Oregon 5,949 3% 1
Washington 5,789 2% 0

State peaks add each county's own peak, which may fall at different hours, so they can exceed the true simultaneous total.

By county

The hardest hit