Madison County, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Madison County, Virginia had 15 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.76 times the US outage time per person and 1.52 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 48 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.7major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

123 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Janhardest months

March and January made up 55% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 4, 2022, reached 2,356 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 123.2 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	2,508	10	0
2016	14,178	30	0
2017	37,838	18	2
2018	257,435	45	6
2019	31,950	24	1
2020	22,298	22	1
2021	13,166	19	1
2022	148,494	37	3
2023	24,330	25	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
Jan 4, 2022	123.2	2,356	94,743
Mar 4, 2018	30.8	1,665	38,796
Mar 2, 2018	13.8	4,249	35,232
May 14, 2018	32.2	2,304	26,852
Jul 12, 2022	18.2	2,450	23,520

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.