– 0 customers out in the US

October 2016 · 10th largest of 72

Hurricane Matthew

At the peak, 2,164,906 customers were without power, most of them in Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina.

Hurricane Matthew
Customers out at the peak 2,164,906 Oct 9, 2016, 8:00 AM
Customer-hours lost 138M Every customer out, times every hour out
Counties with 10%+ out 179 of 343 counties affected
Above 600,000 out nationally 4.2 days Oct 7, 2016, 8:00 AM onward
States affected 39 FL · NC · SC · VA · GA
Hardest-hit county 100%out Volusia, FL · 198,922 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 2.5M Oct 5Oct 7Oct 9Oct 11Oct 13 Peak 2.2M

By state

Where it hit

StatePeak outShareCounties 10%+
Florida 1,512,917 27% 21
North Carolina 792,781 18% 45
South Carolina 687,484 31% 25
Virginia 358,162 19% 38
Georgia 292,808 57% 19
Iowa 39,465 15% 6
Ohio 22,553 2% 0
Maryland 20,560 3% 0
Pennsylvania 16,640 3% 1
Maine 16,612 6% 2
Kansas 16,257 3% 2
Texas 13,026 4% 0
Oklahoma 12,559 7% 2
California 11,530 2% 0
Washington 11,437 3% 1
New York 10,777 2% 2
Missouri 8,649 3% 4
Wisconsin 8,181 1% 1
Illinois 8,092 3% 0
Massachusetts 7,234 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