Henrico County, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Henrico County, Virginia had 69 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.78 times the US outage time per person and 1.54 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 45 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

7.7major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

101 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Octhardest months

June and October made up 53% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 17, 2016, reached 99,349 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.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	291,950	114	4
2016	4,451,086	182	7
2017	478,104	166	3
2018	2,995,260	322	10
2019	692,730	271	8
2020	728,926	251	10
2021	1,329,980	275	11
2022	1,124,612	301	10
2023	1,184,867	330	6

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	99,349	2,222,788
Jun 18, 2016	65.8	116,190	1,795,794
Oct 11, 2018	101.2	66,946	1,683,169
Feb 13, 2021	80.5	25,493	712,628
Sep 7, 2023	51.2	56,291	594,770

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.