– 0 customers out in the US

September 2021 · 62th largest of 72

Hurricane Nicholas

At the peak, 672,715 customers were without power, most of them in Texas, New Jersey, Pennsylvania.

Hurricane Nicholas
Customers out at the peak 672,715 Sep 14, 2021, 9:00 AM
Customer-hours lost 10M Every customer out, times every hour out
Counties with 10%+ out 30 of 83 counties affected
Above 600,000 out nationally 4.0 hours Sep 14, 2021, 7:00 AM onward
States affected 29 TX · NJ · PA · CA · FL
Hardest-hit county 100%out Wharton, TX · 23,775 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 Sep 12Sep 13Sep 14Sep 15Sep 16Sep 17 Peak 673k

By state

Where it hit

StatePeak outShareCounties 10%+
Texas 491,358 13% 11
New Jersey 47,251 3% 0
Pennsylvania 24,876 10% 2
California 11,385 2% 1
Florida 10,493 1% 0
Louisiana 10,101 2% 2
Minnesota 10,015 5% 1
Oklahoma 7,632 2% 0
West Virginia 5,174 6% 1
Tennessee 5,171 2% 2
Indiana 5,148 12% 2
Virginia 3,010 2% 0
Ohio 2,710 13% 1
Michigan 2,577 5% 0
Missouri 2,533 8% 1
Utah 2,460 2% 0
Hawaii 2,431 2% 0
Arizona 2,019 2% 0
Illinois 1,912 2% 0
Mississippi 1,790 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