Patrick County, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Patrick County, Virginia had 62 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 5.21 times the US outage time per person and 4.49 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 1 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

6.9major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

109 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Octhardest months

March and October made up 44% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 2, 2018, reached 7,071 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 89.8 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Virginia counties

MostLeast

Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

200K

400K

600K

800K

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	85,308	30	5
2016	136,816	43	8
2017	91,511	37	4
2018	784,549	38	10
2019	179,647	40	10
2020	186,599	43	4
2021	101,053	29	4
2022	260,063	38	7
2023	157,461	40	10

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

10%

20%

30%

40%

JanJFebFMarMAprAMayMJunJJulJAugASepSOctONovNDecD

Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Mar 2, 2018	89.8	7,071	309,702
Oct 11, 2018	70.2	5,322	197,492
Oct 1, 2022	48.0	4,961	124,400
Nov 15, 2018	109.2	1,747	115,423
Mar 25, 2018	68.2	3,772	104,768

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.

Look up another county

Counties ranked nearby

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.