Lynchburg City, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Lynchburg City, Virginia had 33 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.38 times the US outage time per person and 1.19 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 55 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.7major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

98 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Junhardest months

April and June made up 32% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 15, 2018, reached 12,453 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 97.5 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Virginia counties

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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	33,241	32	0
2016	183,584	57	4
2017	146,861	61	0
2018	753,240	58	5
2019	268,215	55	6
2020	155,730	68	2
2021	213,234	62	4
2022	499,346	78	8
2023	188,794	54	4

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
Apr 15, 2018	97.5	12,453	382,218
Mar 2, 2018	90.5	7,259	238,208
Dec 23, 2022	79.0	4,750	191,882
Jul 21, 2019	32.0	5,816	104,574
Jan 3, 2022	54.5	4,461	82,296

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.