Northampton County, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Northampton County, Virginia had 5 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.29 times the US outage time per person and 1.12 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 58 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.6major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

60 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Octhardest months

August and October made up 34% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 4, 2020, reached 5,439 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 30.2 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	48,511	41	1
2016	62,546	41	0
2017	0	0	0
2018	476	3	0
2019	25,540	32	0
2020	87,046	23	2
2021	49,782	34	2
2022	38,075	35	0
2023	29,664	27	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
Aug 4, 2020	30.2	5,439	50,888
Oct 16, 2020	60.5	343	20,632
Feb 15, 2015	5.5	3,934	11,662
Dec 1, 2021	2.2	8,491	11,410
Oct 9, 2016	7.0	4,162	9,342

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.