City of Harrisonburg, VA
Power reliability at City of Harrisonburg
City of Harrisonburg customers in Virginia rarely lose power at all: 0.2 interruptions last year, adding up to just 18 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 96% less outage time than the Virginia state average of 7.7 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Harrisonburg looks like
A single outage here averages 1.7 hours. That is squarely in battery-power-station range; a fuel generator is overkill for most of these. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
What this means for buying a generator
Most City of Harrisonburg customers keep power almost all year. Serving 21,770 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
Where this number comes from
City of Harrisonburg filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Virginia territory, serving 21,770 customers here, not a single street or outage. Want the Virginia average instead of just this one utility? Virginia's statewide record is here. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.