City of Lexington, NC
City of Lexington's outage record
City of Lexington customers in North Carolina had 2 interruptions last year, 3.7 hours without power in total - above the typical US utility's outage time by about 1.3×. That is 12% more outage time than the North Carolina state average of 3.3 hours a year.
How long a single City of Lexington outage runs
A single outage here averages 1.8 hours. That is squarely in battery-power-station range; a fuel generator is overkill for most of these. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 20,576 customers here, City of Lexington customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
Where this number comes from
City of Lexington filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire North Carolina territory, serving 20,576 customers here, not a single street or outage. See North Carolina as a whole, across every utility that filed: North Carolina's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.