– 0 customers out in the US

October 2018 · 14th largest of 72

Hurricane Michael

At the peak, 1,534,084 customers were without power, most of them in North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia.

Hurricane Michael
Customers out at the peak 1,534,084 Oct 12, 2018, 1:00 AM
Customer-hours lost 90M Every customer out, times every hour out
Counties with 10%+ out 246 of 472 counties affected
Above 600,000 out nationally 2.7 days Oct 11, 2018, 1:00 AM onward
States affected 40 NC · VA · GA · FL · SC
Hardest-hit county 100%out Bay, FL · 88,692 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 500k 1.0M 1.5M 2.0M Oct 9Oct 10Oct 11Oct 12Oct 13Oct 14Oct 15Oct 16 Peak 1.5M

By state

Where it hit

StatePeak outShareCounties 10%+
North Carolina 750,706 15% 44
Virginia 645,382 24% 62
Georgia 384,904 10% 76
Florida 376,014 24% 16
South Carolina 208,599 8% 17
Alabama 74,796 13% 8
Pennsylvania 42,019 4% 2
Massachusetts 21,953 3% 0
Texas 20,444 3% 5
New York 18,964 4% 1
Maryland 17,911 7% 1
Utah 13,415 2% 1
New Jersey 12,220 2% 0
Minnesota 9,681 4% 1
Ohio 9,436 3% 0
Michigan 8,968 5% 2
West Virginia 7,754 6% 2
Kentucky 7,337 9% 1
Maine 7,268 4% 0
California 5,964 2% 1

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