Stafford County, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Stafford County, Virginia had 23 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.31 times the US outage time per person and 1.13 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 57 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.6major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

128 hrslongest major outage

Jan, Marhardest months

January and March made up 74% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 3, 2022, reached 48,311 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 127.8 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.

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

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	43,633	34	0
2016	191,584	69	6
2017	165,780	51	3
2018	1,210,124	62	4
2019	251,683	60	4
2020	62,830	51	1
2021	166,630	44	1
2022	2,692,192	90	3
2023	74,847	42	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
Jan 3, 2022	127.8	48,311	2,497,995
Mar 2, 2018	87.2	33,108	952,938
Aug 12, 2018	30.8	15,523	124,201
Jul 29, 2021	25.5	22,138	106,512
May 23, 2019	26.2	12,261	66,835

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.