Fairfax City, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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Fairfax City, Virginia had 68 major outages from 2015 to 2023

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We show this record but do not rank it because the history is short, the population is very small, or customer counts look too high for the population. Treat these numbers with caution. Data confidence: Low, with 9 years of records.

7.6major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

91 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Mayhardest months

March and May made up 64% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 2, 2018, reached 136,046 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 91.0 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.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	21,557	16	0
2016	19,859	21	0
2017	71,542	37	2
2018	5,602,161	485	21
2019	2,059,058	432	24
2020	1,143,109	325	21
2021	13,184	80	0
2022	54,427	248	0
2023	24,646	139	0

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	91.0	136,046	4,581,291
May 23, 2019	70.2	53,115	536,189
May 30, 2019	21.8	25,761	169,798
Jul 22, 2020	31.0	24,288	157,009
Jul 3, 2019	27.5	19,573	156,178

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

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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.
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