Washington County, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Washington County, Virginia had 48 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.26 times the US outage time per person and 1.08 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 60 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

5.3major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

44 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Julhardest months

June and July made up 34% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 1, 2023, reached 3,338 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 23.8 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.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	169,034	71	7
2016	161,966	80	4
2017	98,906	58	4
2018	217,896	77	5
2019	114,508	57	3
2020	174,643	57	5
2021	106,590	65	1
2022	233,027	71	11
2023	220,013	68	8

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
Apr 1, 2023	23.8	3,338	51,043
Jun 17, 2022	26.2	2,761	47,696
Jul 13, 2015	23.8	3,139	37,066
Jul 31, 2018	5.8	7,799	26,548
Dec 9, 2018	34.0	1,994	25,782

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.