Cumberland County, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Cumberland County, Virginia had 17 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 4.16 times the US outage time per person and 3.59 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 9 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.9major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

128 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Janhardest months

October and January made up 49% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 11, 2018, reached 4,042 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 112.2 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	20,335	10	2
2016	24,753	20	0
2017	50,575	14	1
2018	289,814	31	4
2019	40,868	29	1
2020	20,395	24	1
2021	203,947	26	3
2022	247,844	31	4
2023	22,846	19	1

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
Oct 11, 2018	112.2	4,042	214,002
Jan 3, 2022	127.5	3,590	193,250
Feb 13, 2021	118.8	2,845	172,436
Mar 2, 2018	48.8	1,676	35,853
Dec 9, 2017	43.0	2,273	33,817

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.