– 0% of Albemarle out 0 customers out in Virginia

Power outage history

Albemarle County Virginia

22hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

34th most of 123 in Virginia 3.3× the national median

Worst outage on record Jan 3, 2022 80% of customers out · 90% back in 4.9 days

Hours without power, average customer per year 22h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h

Major outages a year 5.1 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers

Typical time to restore 90% 7hours Median across major outages, from the peak

Longest single outage 6.2days Jan 3, 2022, over 1% of customers out

Outage hours on storm days 80% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here

Worst year 2022 2.7 days without power, average customer

Electricity customers 45,280 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Albemarle's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025

0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.7 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Albemarle, hours without power per customer

AlbemarleUS median countyVirginia average

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began	Storm	Peak out	Share	Lasted	90% restored	Customer-hours
Jan 3, 2022	Winter storm	36,322	80%	6.2 d	4.9 d	2.4M
Mar 1, 2018	Windstorm	20,213	45%	3.9 d	3.1 d	963k
Feb 16, 2025	No storm report	25,027	55%	40 h	23 h	237k
Dec 16, 2020	Winter storm	6,944	15%	2.0 d	28 h	166k
Nov 15, 2018	Winter storm	13,986	31%	2.1 d	5.5 h	153k
May 26, 2024	Thunderstorms	21,750	48%	20 h	15 h	137k
Aug 6, 2020	Thunderstorms	11,525	25%	2.0 d	28 h	133k
Oct 31, 2019	No storm report	8,354	18%	41 h	22 h	129k
Jun 2, 2022	Thunderstorms	17,443	39%	23 h	12 h	104k
May 14, 2018	Thunderstorms	9,984	22%	24 h	21 h	77k
Jun 16, 2016	Thunderstorms	5,576	12%	25 h	15 h	71k
Aug 19, 2019	Thunderstorms	9,300	21%	28 h	20 h	69k
May 4, 2021	Thunderstorms	3,128	7%	48 h	45 h	68k
Dec 23, 2022	Winter storm	5,124	11%	34 h	30 h	63k
Jun 10, 2018	Thunderstorms	7,971	18%	26 h	17 h	53k
Sep 30, 2022	Hurricane Ian	3,862	9%	39 h	29 h	49k
Aug 8, 2024	Hurricane Debby	4,424	10%	23 h	11 h	47k
Feb 16, 2016	Winter storm	6,817	15%	14 h	11 h	45k
Jan 11, 2020	No storm report	8,540	19%	18 h	4.0 h	43k
Jul 28, 2021	Thunderstorms	3,723	8%	23 h	23 h	43k
Jul 21, 2019	No storm report	6,271	14%	22 h	3.5 h	41k
Feb 24, 2019	Windstorm	3,479	8%	23 h	22 h	38k
Jul 28, 2023	Thunderstorms	6,679	15%	15 h	12 h	35k
Jun 20, 2015	Tropical Storm Bill	3,603	8%	18 h	17 h	32k
Aug 14, 2021	Thunderstorms	4,384	10%	22 h	22 h	31k
May 22, 2022	Thunderstorms	8,703	19%	10 h	8.8 h	29k
Sep 23, 2023	Tropical Storm Ophelia	2,807	6%	26 h	18 h	28k
Apr 1, 2023	Windstorm	3,184	7%	18 h	9.0 h	27k
Oct 29, 2017	No storm report	6,182	14%	8.2 h	4.5 h	25k
Feb 20, 2019	Winter storm	1,791	4%	27 h	–	25k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Albemarle from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

Winter storm 43%
No storm on record 20%
Thunderstorms 17%
Windstorm 16%
Tropical storm 2.4%
Flooding 1.8%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Albemarle

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Virginia territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility	Type	Outage min / yr	Excl. major storms	Outages / yr	Residential ¢/kWh	Customers
Virginia Electric & Power Co	Investor Owned	307	144	1.78	15.2	2.4M
Appalachian Power Co	Investor Owned	1,116	328	2.36	17.2	468k
Rappahannock Electric Coop	Cooperative	428	220	2.50	15.5	173k
Central Virginia Electric Coop	Cooperative	796	501	5.03	16.2	35k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Buckingham 34 h
Nelson 32 h
Albemarle (this county) 22 h
Fluvanna 22 h
Louisa 16 h
Orange 10.0 h
Greene 8.4 h
Augusta 8.1 h
Charlottesville 6.9 h
Rockingham 6.8 h

Across Virginia

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Virginia counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 45,280 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →