Goochland County, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Goochland County, Virginia had 38 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.12 times the US outage time per person and 2.69 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 18 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.2major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

158 hrslongest major outage

Jan, Junhardest months

January and June made up 54% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 3, 2022, reached 7,661 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 158.2 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	106,336	27	3
2016	395,436	43	6
2017	71,265	47	3
2018	287,826	47	5
2019	85,239	54	5
2020	62,045	39	3
2021	219,530	31	2
2022	667,362	54	9
2023	42,731	42	2

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
Jan 3, 2022	158.2	7,661	481,938
Feb 13, 2021	76.8	6,378	191,865
Jun 17, 2016	26.8	9,592	175,940
Jun 18, 2016	56.5	9,103	136,612
Oct 11, 2018	69.5	5,846	127,704

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.