Fairfax County, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.26 times the US outage time per person and 0.22 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 114 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.8major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

48 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Aprhardest months

July and April made up 32% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 29, 2023, reached 26,150 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 47.8 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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1.5M

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	855,625	358	3
2016	1,031,072	453	2
2017	942,054	328	3
2018	0	0	0
2019	0	0	0
2020	67,637	51	0
2021	1,538,253	387	5
2022	1,013,190	511	1
2023	1,154,526	464	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
Jul 29, 2023	47.8	26,150	270,245
Apr 3, 2016	26.0	29,842	242,362
Jun 23, 2015	18.5	28,150	224,650
Apr 1, 2023	29.2	24,975	212,512
Apr 30, 2021	37.0	27,782	168,210

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.