Nelson County, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Nelson County, Virginia had 28 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.18 times the US outage time per person and 2.74 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 17 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.1major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

128 hrslongest major outage

Jan, Marhardest months

January and March made up 36% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 3, 2022, reached 2,692 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 127.5 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	11,460	12	2
2016	24,080	13	2
2017	54,208	26	2
2018	227,117	46	5
2019	119,525	45	3
2020	128,002	30	1
2021	56,558	40	1
2022	351,802	46	9
2023	60,397	37	3

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 3, 2022	127.5	2,692	187,853
Mar 2, 2018	84.2	4,889	141,974
Oct 31, 2019	39.8	3,714	65,561
Aug 12, 2020	6.5	6,469	41,920
Oct 1, 2022	40.5	2,936	34,406

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.