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

Power outage history

Bath County Virginia

25hours

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

25th most of 123 in Virginia 3.8× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 24, 2019 100% of customers out · 90% back in 24 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 25h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 16.3 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 2.8days Mar 29, 2024, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 25% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 36 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 3,010 ORNL customer model · 7 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 Bath'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

2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 36 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Bath, hours without power per customer

BathUS median countyVirginia average
0 10 20 30 40 50 ’16 ’17 ’18 28 ’19 36 ’20 15 ’21 28 ’22 18 ’23 29 ’24 24 ’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 24, 2019 Windstorm 3,010 100% 48 h 24 h 30k
Jan 12, 2020 No storm report 526 17% 2.3 d 48 h 26k
Nov 17, 2020 No storm report 1,106 37% 24 h 18 h 24k
Jun 17, 2022 Thunderstorms 3,010 100% 2.7 d 1.5 h 22k
Apr 6, 2019 No storm report 605 20% 34 h 29 h 19k
Sep 27, 2024 Windstorm 2,299 76% 2.2 d 28 h 19k
Nov 1, 2020 No storm report 3,010 100% 17 h 8.5 h 13k
Mar 10, 2024 No storm report 1,554 52% 21 h 5.5 h 11k
May 11, 2022 No storm report 430 14% 22 h 23 h 9.3k
Jul 12, 2021 No storm report 438 15% 30 h 30 h 7.6k
May 13, 2025 No storm report 3,010 100% 15 h 3.5 h 7.2k
Feb 12, 2024 No storm report 1,420 47% 6.0 h 4.5 h 7.2k

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 +6h 90% by +24h

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 Bath from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 75%
  • Windstorm 12%
  • Thunderstorms 9.2%
  • Winter storm 2.1%
  • Tropical storm 1.4%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Bath

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
BARC Electric Coop Inc VA 950 375 4.01 13.3 128k

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+

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 3,010 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 →