Prince Edward County, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Prince Edward County, Virginia had 17 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 4.97 times the US outage time per person and 4.29 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 4 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.9major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

138 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Febhardest months

October and February made up 72% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 11, 2018, reached 16,283 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 138.5 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	27,756	20	0
2016	35,463	27	2
2017	120,718	37	1
2018	1,054,011	53	4
2019	124,887	29	2
2020	49,812	36	2
2021	829,938	32	3
2022	164,568	40	3
2023	31,701	26	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 11, 2018	138.5	16,283	867,729
Feb 13, 2021	120.2	8,428	616,773
Feb 18, 2021	123.0	2,852	191,724
Dec 9, 2017	60.2	4,581	96,100
Mar 2, 2018	43.5	4,315	92,434

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.