Lunenburg County, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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Lunenburg County, Virginia had 16 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.

1.8major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

136 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Octhardest months

February and October made up 82% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 13, 2021, reached 6,723 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 126.5 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	7,874	9	0
2016	26,120	23	1
2017	39,046	18	1
2018	572,720	40	4
2019	69,527	35	3
2020	20,546	16	1
2021	1,000,947	24	3
2022	23,337	21	2
2023	8,242	13	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
Feb 13, 2021	126.5	6,723	620,969
Oct 11, 2018	135.5	9,719	431,442
Feb 18, 2021	123.0	3,475	336,849
Mar 2, 2018	35.2	2,774	59,774
Dec 9, 2018	44.5	2,935	32,546

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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