Wise County, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Wise County, Virginia had 28 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.96 times the US outage time per person and 0.83 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 78 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.1major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

57 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Julhardest months

June and July made up 38% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 17, 2022, reached 6,725 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 57.2 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	99,042	41	7
2016	67,923	56	4
2017	73,573	36	0
2018	95,698	56	2
2019	24,795	23	0
2020	65,931	33	1
2021	72,236	35	3
2022	167,115	56	6
2023	71,084	32	5

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
Jun 17, 2022	57.2	6,725	94,473
Apr 13, 2020	37.2	2,203	36,307
Dec 9, 2018	46.8	2,097	34,868
Apr 1, 2023	30.0	1,864	24,270
Mar 1, 2017	4.2	6,532	22,664

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.