Carroll County, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Carroll County, Virginia had 38 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.05 times the US outage time per person and 2.63 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 21 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.2major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

87 hrslongest major outage

Nov, Octhardest months

November and October made up 39% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Nov 15, 2018, reached 9,308 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 79.5 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	67,830	43	1
2016	148,261	37	5
2017	127,929	35	3
2018	721,514	40	6
2019	242,917	60	7
2020	99,233	53	1
2021	166,894	47	3
2022	286,922	53	9
2023	98,100	45	3

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	79.5	9,308	322,818
Mar 2, 2018	87.0	4,312	147,113
Oct 1, 2022	24.0	10,175	96,953
Mar 24, 2018	69.5	2,360	79,546
Jan 28, 2021	33.8	3,899	61,702

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.