Chesapeake City, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Chesapeake City, Virginia had 16 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.77 times the US outage time per person and 0.66 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 93 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.8major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

88 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Aughardest months

October and August made up 59% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 8, 2016, reached 37,135 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 88.2 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	108,158	78	1
2016	1,240,661	116	2
2017	176,813	95	0
2018	670,730	113	3
2019	472,388	115	4
2020	1,229,551	100	3
2021	111,028	93	0
2022	163,068	103	2
2023	143,300	93	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
Oct 8, 2016	88.2	37,135	1,050,204
Aug 4, 2020	59.8	57,143	810,776
Oct 11, 2018	47.8	19,883	399,842
Apr 13, 2020	34.5	37,466	241,300
Jun 20, 2019	24.8	29,920	190,581

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.