Power Out Map
– 0% of Appomattox out 0 customers out in Virginia

Power outage history

Appomattox County Virginia

18hours

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

48th most of 123 in Virginia 2.7× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 13, 2025 94% of customers out · 90% back in 2.2 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 18h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 5.6 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 3hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 8.0days Feb 13, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 82% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2025 40 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 6,686 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 Appomattox's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 40 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Appomattox, hours without power per customer

AppomattoxUS median countyVirginia average
0 10 20 30 40 50 1.6 ’15 18 ’16 4.8 ’17 31 ’18 5.3 ’19 3.7 ’20 35 ’21 18 ’22 6.3 ’23 5.2 ’24 40 ’25 VA 8.7 US 6.6

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
Feb 12, 2025 Winter storm 6,274 94% 5.3 d 2.2 d 215k
Feb 13, 2021 Winter storm 3,660 55% 8.0 d 2.2 d 199k
Oct 11, 2018 Hurricane Michael 5,193 78% 4.8 d 2.1 d 116k
Feb 24, 2016 Tornadoes 5,493 82% 32 h 23 h 102k
Mar 2, 2018 Windstorm 2,079 31% 2.2 d 27 h 42k
Jan 3, 2022 Winter storm 2,176 33% 3.5 d 2.1 d 39k
Jun 22, 2022 Thunderstorms 3,544 53% 16 h 12 h 28k
Jan 6, 2025 Winter storm 2,534 38% 34 h 27 h 21k
Dec 23, 2022 Windstorm 890 13% 41 h 5.8 h 15k
Dec 8, 2017 Winter storm 645 10% 41 h 28 h 13k
Sep 30, 2022 Hurricane Ian 2,654 40% 22 h 30 min 7.3k
Oct 31, 2019 No storm report 549 8% 19 h 6.0 h 7.1k

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.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +8h 90% by +30h

When it happens

The outage clock

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

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

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

  • Winter storm 53%
  • No storm on record 18%
  • Tropical storm 14%
  • Thunderstorms 7.8%
  • Windstorm 6.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Appomattox

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
Southside Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 2,127 324 4.45 15.5 57k
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

Across Virginia

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

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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 6,686 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 →