Newport News City, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Newport News City, Virginia had 19 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.89 times the US outage time per person and 0.77 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 84 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.1major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

71 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Aughardest months

October and August made up 67% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 12, 2018, reached 29,961 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 67.8 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	120,830	83	1
2016	699,707	79	3
2017	96,176	58	1
2018	949,536	72	3
2019	255,481	90	2
2020	1,003,479	93	3
2021	126,360	82	2
2022	277,738	72	4
2023	73,580	54	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
Oct 12, 2018	67.8	29,961	795,908
Aug 4, 2020	68.8	32,625	791,981
Oct 8, 2016	71.0	23,363	546,408
Sep 30, 2022	29.8	11,607	103,796
Apr 15, 2019	14.2	8,578	56,702

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.