Virginia Beach City, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Virginia Beach City, Virginia had 29 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.02 times the US outage time per person and 0.88 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 75 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.2major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

112 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Aughardest months

October and August made up 61% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 9, 2016, reached 77,449 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 111.5 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.

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

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	233,050	187	3
2016	3,708,240	235	3
2017	368,323	200	3
2018	1,853,018	241	4
2019	930,988	216	6
2020	2,037,655	206	4
2021	250,221	201	1
2022	545,077	168	4
2023	316,962	180	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
Oct 9, 2016	111.5	77,449	3,049,488
Aug 4, 2020	71.0	74,967	1,264,534
Oct 12, 2018	71.8	55,532	1,141,102
Apr 13, 2020	36.5	44,808	458,830
Sep 6, 2019	36.8	30,000	334,425

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.