Falls Church City, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Falls Church City, Virginia had 13 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.04 times the US outage time per person and 0.89 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 73 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.4major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

40 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Marhardest months

July and March made up 38% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 2, 2018, reached 2,199 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 40.5 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	9,780	11	0
2016	14,076	15	1
2017	9,298	5	0
2018	66,072	15	2
2019	56,092	12	1
2020	22,292	19	1
2021	98,946	11	4
2022	14,829	14	0
2023	51,070	12	4

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	40.5	2,199	48,224
Aug 10, 2021	24.0	5,829	47,062
May 23, 2019	26.8	2,521	41,272
Jul 29, 2021	17.2	2,468	29,323
Jul 29, 2023	19.5	1,427	17,353

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.