Augusta County, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Augusta County, Virginia had 18 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.93 times the US outage time per person and 0.80 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 79 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.0major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

64 hrslongest major outage

Nov, Febhardest months

November and February made up 52% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Nov 15, 2018, reached 19,086 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 59.0 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	24,275	35	0
2016	178,172	98	2
2017	85,007	72	0
2018	816,879	72	4
2019	87,908	63	1
2020	101,380	62	1
2021	88,751	48	3
2022	141,445	84	6
2023	84,966	60	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
Nov 15, 2018	59.0	19,086	604,658
Nov 18, 2018	45.2	3,116	66,244
Jun 24, 2016	22.8	5,861	49,063
Mar 2, 2018	64.0	2,175	47,478
Feb 13, 2023	22.0	3,017	32,440

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.