King William County, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

King William County, Virginia had 11 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.11 times the US outage time per person and 0.95 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 68 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.2major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

85 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Febhardest months

October and February made up 44% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 12, 2018, reached 4,288 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 84.8 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	5,713	9	0
2016	62,318	26	2
2017	22,526	23	1
2018	184,369	35	3
2019	12,078	13	0
2020	26,914	20	1
2021	98,407	17	2
2022	39,074	18	1
2023	16,808	19	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	84.8	4,288	116,413
Feb 13, 2021	49.2	3,455	66,753
Jun 17, 2022	14.2	6,442	29,128
Jun 17, 2016	11.8	3,616	28,028
May 15, 2018	26.2	1,820	19,598

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.