Middlesex County, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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Middlesex County, Virginia had 18 major outages from 2015 to 2023

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We show this record but do not rank it because the history is short, the population is very small, or customer counts look too high for the population. Treat these numbers with caution. Data confidence: Low, with 9 years of records.

2.0major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

89 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Marhardest months

October and March made up 46% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 12, 2018, reached 5,764 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 89.0 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	19,769	9	0
2016	43,515	15	2
2017	22,136	15	0
2018	394,164	27	3
2019	47,566	20	2
2020	89,308	24	3
2021	61,818	20	3
2022	90,186	17	4
2023	39,231	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	89.0	5,764	251,179
Mar 2, 2018	62.0	2,969	76,950
Aug 4, 2020	32.0	4,427	47,858
May 22, 2022	11.2	3,844	41,562
Feb 13, 2021	30.2	1,238	25,877

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.
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