Bland County, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Bland County, Virginia had 16 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 4.68 times the US outage time per person and 4.03 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 6 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.8major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

120 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Janhardest months

March and January made up 52% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 24, 2018, reached 3,828 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 120.2 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Virginia counties

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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	42,283	28	1
2016	25,077	16	2
2017	28,738	14	1
2018	270,309	16	2
2019	50,240	13	2
2020	32,382	18	0
2021	84,022	17	4
2022	76,728	24	2
2023	26,750	14	2

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
Mar 24, 2018	120.2	3,828	231,657
Jan 28, 2021	22.8	3,081	43,745
Feb 24, 2019	26.5	1,520	23,141
Dec 12, 2021	17.5	752	13,144
Jul 19, 2022	5.8	2,183	12,527

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.