Franklin City, Virginia Power Outages, 2020 to 2023

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Franklin City, Virginia had 36 major outages from 2020 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 4 years of records.

9.0major outages per year

4 of 4years with a major outage

84 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Junhardest months

December and June made up 40% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 23, 2022, reached 8,019 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 84.5 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
2020	133,213	46	6
2021	165,873	38	6
2022	634,400	68	9
2023	251,248	91	15

When outages hit

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Dec 23, 2022	84.5	8,019	313,561
Jan 3, 2022	56.8	5,899	102,580
Jun 14, 2021	19.2	2,925	39,478
Jun 17, 2022	25.2	1,499	24,015
Oct 1, 2022	20.5	1,952	21,682

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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A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
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