Floyd County, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Floyd County, Virginia had 32 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 5.01 times the US outage time per person and 4.32 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 3 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.6major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

107 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Novhardest months

February and November made up 51% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Nov 15, 2018, reached 8,052 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 107.2 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	25,125	27	1
2016	47,272	21	1
2017	22,682	13	0
2018	736,466	28	7
2019	223,171	31	5
2020	96,810	27	4
2021	403,770	33	4
2022	134,615	30	9
2023	36,745	19	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
Nov 15, 2018	107.2	8,052	392,676
Feb 13, 2021	97.5	7,346	329,091
Mar 25, 2018	90.5	5,358	185,074
Mar 2, 2018	60.8	4,601	70,082
Feb 24, 2019	25.5	3,400	64,219

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.