Galax City, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Galax City, Virginia had 4 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.68 times the US outage time per person and 0.58 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 98 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.4major outages per year

2 of 9years with a major outage

36 hrslongest major outage

Nov, Octhardest months

November and October made up 36% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Nov 15, 2018, reached 1,579 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 36.0 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.

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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	12,183	11	0
2016	900	1	0
2017	19,720	11	2
2018	34,186	10	2
2019	4,198	6	0
2020	7,747	10	0
2021	1,218	3	0
2022	7,780	7	0
2023	12,368	13	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
Nov 15, 2018	36.0	1,579	18,993
May 10, 2017	16.0	848	11,190
Oct 17, 2015	2.2	3,790	7,099
Oct 23, 2017	21.2	705	5,668
Feb 13, 2018	5.2	986	5,155

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.