Scott County, Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.76 times the US outage time per person and 2.38 times the Virginia rate. It ranks 30 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

110 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Julhardest months

December and July made up 50% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 9, 2018, reached 10,353 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 109.5 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	54,810	44	2
2016	66,964	33	5
2017	33,778	28	1
2018	611,356	53	5
2019	84,520	47	5
2020	55,760	47	2
2021	80,470	51	7
2022	173,482	59	11
2023	136,613	30	6

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
Dec 9, 2018	109.5	10,353	479,962
Aug 5, 2022	43.5	2,454	38,200
Jul 21, 2018	17.2	2,890	30,975
Apr 1, 2023	29.0	3,094	29,758
May 16, 2023	26.2	2,179	25,601

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.