Fauquier County, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Fauquier County, Virginia had 43 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.78 times the US outage time per person and 1.53 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 45 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.8major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

89 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Junhardest months

March and June made up 50% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 2, 2018, reached 17,071 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 89.2 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	85,762	61	1
2016	176,432	71	5
2017	207,436	60	4
2018	884,306	69	5
2019	203,454	78	6
2020	293,136	80	7
2021	142,157	86	4
2022	796,306	89	7
2023	177,140	55	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
Mar 2, 2018	89.2	17,071	670,118
Jun 22, 2022	76.5	18,401	528,887
Dec 16, 2020	41.5	9,329	136,609
Apr 6, 2017	31.5	13,464	104,818
Aug 7, 2023	13.0	10,670	93,671

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.