Arlington County, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Arlington County, Virginia had 23 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.63 times the US outage time per person and 0.55 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 103 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.6major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

84 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Mayhardest months

July and May made up 43% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 29, 2023, reached 34,068 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 51.8 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	108,886	81	2
2016	154,175	121	1
2017	241,319	113	1
2018	583,853	151	1
2019	531,282	116	3
2020	274,798	127	2
2021	391,216	125	5
2022	299,372	90	4
2023	756,162	119	4

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Jul 29, 2023	51.8	34,068	538,980
Mar 2, 2018	84.2	14,663	421,509
May 23, 2019	47.0	35,742	368,243
May 22, 2022	24.0	11,347	97,222
Jul 2, 2021	24.8	11,238	90,729

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.