Norfolk City, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Norfolk City, Virginia had 19 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.80 times the US outage time per person and 0.69 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 90 of 119 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.1major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

91 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Aughardest months

October and August made up 60% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 8, 2016, reached 44,190 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 91.2 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	192,752	96	2
2016	1,452,789	117	2
2017	123,596	89	1
2018	696,899	101	4
2019	235,768	116	3
2020	630,558	115	2
2021	102,058	100	1
2022	465,435	110	4
2023	153,048	93	0

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
Oct 8, 2016	91.2	44,190	1,236,609
Oct 12, 2018	56.8	36,907	497,941
Aug 4, 2020	41.5	33,904	339,521
Sep 30, 2022	46.0	18,480	258,352
Apr 13, 2020	30.0	23,567	164,255

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.