City of Salem, VA
How often City of Salem goes out
Outages at City of Salem are uncommon. Virginia customers on this grid saw 0.3 interruptions in the most recent year on file, 28 minutes total - well under the national median. That is 94% less outage time than the Virginia state average of 7.7 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Salem looks like
At an average of 1.6 hours per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
Do City of Salem customers need a generator
Most City of Salem customers keep power almost all year. Serving 13,654 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
How City of Salem's record was measured
City of Salem filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Virginia territory, serving 13,654 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.