Hampton City, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Hampton City, Virginia had 13 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.89 times the US outage time per person and 0.77 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 84 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.4major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

74 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Aughardest months

October and August made up 68% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 12, 2018, reached 27,605 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 68.5 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	67,123	59	0
2016	632,881	78	6
2017	124,653	71	1
2018	747,242	71	1
2019	110,470	63	1
2020	610,491	54	1
2021	74,250	54	0
2022	238,999	60	2
2023	101,064	62	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 12, 2018	68.5	27,605	651,017
Aug 4, 2020	62.8	24,593	552,878
Oct 8, 2016	74.0	19,285	462,426
Sep 30, 2022	27.2	6,003	81,360
Dec 23, 2022	22.5	6,971	66,842

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.