Frederick County, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Frederick County, Virginia had 10 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.47 times the US outage time per person and 0.40 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 108 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

52 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Dechardest months

February and December made up 38% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 15, 2022, reached 6,135 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 52.2 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	21,454	19	0
2016	91,260	61	1
2017	151,918	45	1
2018	125,190	34	1
2019	257,320	40	3
2020	37,394	42	0
2021	81,220	51	1
2022	197,784	51	2
2023	48,977	35	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
Dec 15, 2022	52.2	6,135	94,054
Feb 13, 2019	38.2	6,659	90,046
Mar 2, 2018	45.0	4,049	83,892
Feb 12, 2019	13.2	6,646	67,736
Aug 30, 2022	14.5	4,548	61,184

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.