Botetourt County, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Botetourt County, Virginia had 38 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.61 times the US outage time per person and 1.39 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 52 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.2major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

80 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Julhardest months

February and July made up 28% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 2, 2018, reached 5,264 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 64.5 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	42,992	27	1
2016	150,805	32	3
2017	55,033	28	2
2018	203,389	55	7
2019	240,256	62	6
2020	107,472	44	7
2021	115,526	45	5
2022	203,599	33	5
2023	88,971	31	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
Mar 2, 2018	64.5	5,264	100,088
Dec 23, 2022	80.0	3,709	89,942
Jul 8, 2016	37.2	3,877	83,021
Feb 24, 2019	50.0	4,415	64,966
Feb 20, 2019	43.8	3,384	46,469

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.