Rockingham County, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Rockingham County, Virginia had 14 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.66 times the US outage time per person and 0.57 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 101 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.6major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

53 hrslongest major outage

Nov, Aughardest months

November and August made up 43% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Nov 15, 2018, reached 11,773 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 53.0 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	40,200	43	0
2016	127,364	79	1
2017	58,213	73	1
2018	608,808	73	7
2019	132,675	74	2
2020	59,723	55	0
2021	56,871	50	0
2022	133,370	90	3
2023	62,159	60	0

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
Nov 15, 2018	53.0	11,773	354,844
Mar 2, 2018	44.5	4,048	74,467
Nov 18, 2018	37.2	3,053	43,980
Feb 24, 2019	26.0	4,813	37,158
May 14, 2018	29.5	4,445	30,052

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.