Craig County, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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Craig County, Virginia had 13 major outages from 2015 to 2023

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We show this record but do not rank it because the history is short, the population is very small, or customer counts look too high for the population. Treat these numbers with caution. Data confidence: Low, with 9 years of records.

1.4major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

32 hrslongest major outage

Nov, Mayhardest months

November and May made up 40% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Nov 16, 2018, reached 3,093 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 32.0 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	3,912	4	0
2016	7,298	2	1
2017	34,415	14	3
2018	73,378	22	2
2019	30,228	21	3
2020	6,238	9	0
2021	33,229	22	1
2022	29,806	18	3
2023	9,751	12	0

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
Nov 16, 2018	32.0	3,093	42,603
Mar 2, 2018	15.2	1,105	13,252
Feb 25, 2019	16.5	671	7,551
Jun 17, 2022	7.8	1,715	7,145
Oct 29, 2017	26.5	276	6,921

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.
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