Portsmouth City, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Portsmouth City, Virginia had 17 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.86 times the US outage time per person and 0.74 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 86 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.9major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

80 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Aughardest months

October and August made up 61% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 4, 2020, reached 14,872 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 60.5 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	72,020	41	0
2016	387,721	58	4
2017	56,163	38	2
2018	380,509	50	1
2019	121,962	53	3
2020	619,698	45	3
2021	61,086	41	1
2022	62,514	43	1
2023	56,660	37	2

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	60.5	14,872	421,577
Oct 12, 2018	60.0	10,626	299,354
Oct 8, 2016	79.8	8,525	281,991
Apr 13, 2020	33.5	11,769	134,312
May 2, 2019	2.8	21,038	30,773

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.