Page County, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Page County, Virginia had 6 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.51 times the US outage time per person and 0.44 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 107 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.7major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

30 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Novhardest months

June and November made up 27% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 24, 2019, reached 1,751 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 21.8 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	10,778	7	0
2016	43,276	26	1
2017	66,479	34	0
2018	54,539	18	3
2019	35,250	16	1
2020	8,242	16	0
2021	4,272	7	0
2022	19,609	28	0
2023	24,113	20	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 24, 2019	21.8	1,751	20,644
May 9, 2017	5.2	4,028	15,382
Mar 2, 2018	29.5	662	12,833
Jun 16, 2016	18.5	2,408	12,555
May 14, 2018	19.2	1,651	11,290

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.