Franklin County, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Franklin County, Virginia had 28 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.04 times the US outage time per person and 1.76 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 38 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.1major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

106 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Marhardest months

February and March made up 66% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 13, 2021, reached 13,189 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 106.2 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	106,742	58	3
2016	408,096	77	6
2017	117,208	64	2
2018	840,709	75	9
2019	371,999	83	6
2020	70,976	42	1
2021	577,327	20	1
2022	0	0	0
2023	0	0	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
Feb 13, 2021	106.2	13,189	546,548
Mar 2, 2018	92.8	14,585	396,620
Feb 16, 2016	60.2	12,169	207,342
Mar 25, 2018	66.5	6,683	170,408
Oct 11, 2018	55.5	2,856	98,448

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.