Prince William County, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Prince William County, Virginia had 10 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.26 times the US outage time per person and 0.23 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 114 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

90 hrslongest major outage

Jan, Marhardest months

January and March made up 49% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 3, 2022, reached 33,253 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 81.0 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	114,870	99	0
2016	175,818	92	0
2017	161,622	101	2
2018	763,470	86	2
2019	197,341	110	1
2020	139,301	103	0
2021	169,894	94	0
2022	887,663	119	2
2023	283,011	101	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	81.0	33,253	677,418
Mar 2, 2018	90.5	32,321	625,649
Jul 29, 2023	23.2	11,987	64,455
Aug 24, 2021	3.2	38,810	63,693
Jul 17, 2019	19.2	13,679	53,383

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.