Gloucester County, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Gloucester County, Virginia had 27 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.30 times the US outage time per person and 1.98 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 35 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.0major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

113 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Marhardest months

October and March made up 48% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 11, 2018, reached 15,712 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 112.8 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	85,586	33	2
2016	155,128	41	5
2017	88,719	46	1
2018	1,101,231	51	4
2019	79,629	36	3
2020	241,659	46	3
2021	84,370	48	3
2022	128,772	47	5
2023	66,856	26	1

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
Oct 11, 2018	112.8	15,712	690,120
Mar 2, 2018	80.0	8,761	202,568
Dec 9, 2018	42.2	8,148	137,930
Aug 4, 2020	39.8	7,295	136,393
Jun 21, 2023	15.8	5,656	35,170

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.