Power Out Map
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Power outage history

Bland County Virginia

43hours

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

6th most of 123 in Virginia 6.6× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Helene · Sep 27, 2024 100% of customers out · 90% back in 6.2 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 43h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 10.9 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 6.6days Hurricane Helene, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 64% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2024 5.0 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 3,556 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 Bland'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

2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 5.0 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Bland, hours without power per customer

BlandUS median countyVirginia average
0 50 100 150 15 ’15 9.8 ’16 12 ’17 82 ’18 20 ’19 15 ’20 29 ’21 33 ’22 16 ’23 121 ’24 32 ’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
Sep 27, 2024 Hurricane Helene 3,556 100% 6.6 d 6.2 d 327k
Mar 24, 2018 Winter storm 3,556 100% 5.1 d 3.9 d 230k
Jan 27, 2021 Winter storm 3,081 87% 41 h 12 h 46k
Feb 12, 2025 Winter storm 1,730 49% 32 h 14 h 32k
Feb 24, 2019 Windstorm 1,520 43% 2.4 d 25 h 27k
May 26, 2024 Thunderstorms 1,852 52% 2.0 d 41 h 25k
Jun 17, 2022 Thunderstorms 2,140 60% 30 h 5.2 h 17k
Mar 15, 2025 No storm report 1,222 34% 21 h 8.0 h 16k
Dec 11, 2021 No storm report 752 21% 18 h 12 h 13k
Jul 19, 2022 No storm report 2,183 61% 5.8 h 48 min 13k
Mar 28, 2025 No storm report 781 22% 15 h 11 h 12k
Jul 15, 2023 No storm report 985 28% 14 h 18 h 11k

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 +10h 90% by +14h

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

  • No storm on record 36%
  • Tropical storm 28%
  • Winter storm 28%
  • Thunderstorms 4.5%
  • Windstorm 3.4%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Bland

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
Appalachian Power Co Investor Owned 1,116 328 2.36 17.2 468k

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 3,556 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 →