Giles County, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Giles County, Virginia had 44 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.28 times the US outage time per person and 2.83 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 15 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.9major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

108 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Junhardest months

March and June made up 49% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 24, 2018, reached 8,274 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 108.5 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	42,462	32	2
2016	72,419	35	1
2017	68,354	21	4
2018	568,383	38	6
2019	60,524	29	2
2020	108,870	27	6
2021	80,302	34	9
2022	127,107	40	9
2023	64,858	18	5

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 24, 2018	108.5	8,274	362,146
Mar 21, 2018	40.5	5,587	66,661
Apr 8, 2020	42.8	3,367	51,433
Apr 11, 2018	5.2	5,554	29,139
Feb 24, 2019	27.8	1,082	20,778

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.