Dickenson County, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Dickenson County, Virginia had 47 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.84 times the US outage time per person and 2.45 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 28 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

5.2major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

76 hrslongest major outage

May, Junhardest months

May and June made up 38% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 16, 2023, reached 3,403 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 76.5 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	57,518	26	3
2016	53,157	30	2
2017	53,929	30	2
2018	86,555	27	2
2019	72,682	38	9
2020	95,738	40	4
2021	64,494	30	4
2022	212,570	42	15
2023	140,864	27	6

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
May 16, 2023	76.5	3,403	84,956
Dec 9, 2018	53.0	1,792	47,388
Apr 13, 2020	42.2	2,148	39,837
Jun 17, 2022	27.2	2,072	37,695
Jun 18, 2022	47.2	1,232	32,934

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.