Chesterfield County, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Chesterfield County, Virginia had 45 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.00 times the US outage time per person and 0.86 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 76 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

5.0major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

124 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Octhardest months

February and October made up 43% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 13, 2021, reached 57,010 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 124.5 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.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	317,086	125	3
2016	912,516	197	4
2017	431,480	177	5
2018	2,114,007	189	7
2019	506,746	169	4
2020	545,534	167	5
2021	2,115,600	172	6
2022	710,424	186	7
2023	944,685	213	4

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
Feb 13, 2021	124.5	57,010	1,730,278
Oct 11, 2018	103.5	51,921	1,341,351
Sep 7, 2023	51.2	36,577	418,002
Jul 19, 2016	25.0	27,047	328,844
Mar 2, 2018	64.0	13,730	207,767

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.