York County, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

York County, Virginia had 20 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.92 times the US outage time per person and 0.79 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 80 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.2major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

78 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Aughardest months

October and August made up 60% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 12, 2018, reached 16,037 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 78.2 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	21,050	18	1
2016	189,782	44	2
2017	40,970	32	0
2018	603,439	50	4
2019	118,505	44	3
2020	198,611	48	2
2021	61,263	33	1
2022	128,172	37	5
2023	80,154	42	2

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 12, 2018	78.2	16,037	491,766
Oct 8, 2016	64.5	6,286	129,635
Aug 4, 2020	56.8	10,192	120,955
Dec 9, 2018	45.8	2,470	46,570
Sep 30, 2022	23.5	4,594	41,996

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.