Fredericksburg City, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Fredericksburg City, Virginia had 9 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.79 times the US outage time per person and 0.68 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 91 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

81 hrslongest major outage

Jan, Junhardest months

January and June made up 55% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 3, 2022, reached 4,952 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 74.2 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	14,687	13	0
2016	19,005	12	0
2017	13,911	10	0
2018	109,542	11	2
2019	18,450	10	2
2020	8,135	11	0
2021	32,418	17	1
2022	300,573	20	4
2023	4,466	7	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
Jan 3, 2022	74.2	4,952	168,875
Jun 22, 2022	50.8	6,612	100,547
Mar 2, 2018	80.8	3,529	95,668
Jul 14, 2021	13.8	1,712	14,815
Aug 15, 2016	6.0	3,320	11,425

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.