Lee County, Virginia Power Outages, 2019 to 2023

Lee County, Virginia had 8 major outages from 2019 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.08 times the US outage time per person and 0.93 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 70 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 5 years of records.

1.6major outages per year

4 of 5years with a major outage

43 hrslongest major outage

May, Junhardest months

May and June made up 42% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 16, 2023, reached 5,181 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 27.2 hours.

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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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2019	12,884	20	0
2020	62,964	99	2
2021	47,550	38	2
2022	53,597	65	1
2023	110,610	45	3

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	27.2	5,181	59,872
Jun 17, 2022	19.8	3,814	24,896
Aug 31, 2020	43.0	449	18,836
Jun 10, 2021	8.8	2,084	18,022
Jul 29, 2023	13.0	5,793	17,172

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.