Mecklenburg County, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Mecklenburg County, Virginia had 19 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.37 times the US outage time per person and 2.04 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 34 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.1major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

126 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Octhardest months

February and October made up 62% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 13, 2021, reached 11,762 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 126.2 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	44,998	43	2
2016	96,800	48	2
2017	44,974	63	0
2018	463,764	64	4
2019	121,624	50	3
2020	59,015	40	2
2021	616,714	37	2
2022	90,094	56	3
2023	67,998	73	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
Feb 13, 2021	126.2	11,762	571,775
Oct 11, 2018	116.8	9,277	301,846
Dec 9, 2018	51.8	3,607	71,157
Jun 20, 2019	33.2	3,067	36,888
Jul 8, 2016	23.5	3,991	30,923

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.