Culpeper County, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.35 times the US outage time per person and 1.16 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 56 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

148 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Dechardest months

March and December made up 35% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 2, 2018, reached 8,749 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 87.2 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	37,784	36	2
2016	80,834	57	2
2017	93,570	35	1
2018	638,878	50	4
2019	59,343	34	0
2020	252,407	40	2
2021	107,924	41	4
2022	317,210	44	3
2023	73,748	37	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	87.2	8,749	346,682
Dec 16, 2020	44.5	9,706	172,148
Jan 3, 2022	148.2	2,887	168,583
May 14, 2018	40.2	9,217	105,241
Nov 15, 2018	47.0	6,185	98,019

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.