Hanover County, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Hanover County, Virginia had 35 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.18 times the US outage time per person and 1.02 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 64 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.9major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

106 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Octhardest months

June and October made up 49% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 17, 2016, reached 27,009 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 26.5 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	132,548	62	3
2016	792,488	58	6
2017	183,637	64	4
2018	708,485	82	4
2019	118,062	77	2
2020	151,852	63	3
2021	409,707	70	4
2022	384,124	83	6
2023	120,098	61	3

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
Jun 17, 2016	26.5	27,009	509,544
Oct 11, 2018	90.5	14,771	445,838
Feb 13, 2021	57.2	15,936	301,918
Jun 18, 2016	41.5	17,907	150,360
Mar 2, 2018	57.2	10,515	135,837

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.