Power Out Map
– 0% of Charles City out 0 customers out in Virginia

Power outage history

Charles City County Virginia

32hours

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

16th most of 123 in Virginia 4.8× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Michael · Oct 11, 2018 100% of customers out · 90% back in 2.9 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 32h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 16.5 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 3.8days Hurricane Michael, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 55% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2018 4.2 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 2,516 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 Charles City'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

2018 was the worst well-recorded year, at 4.2 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Charles City, hours without power per customer

Charles CityUS median countyVirginia average
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 7.1 ’15 17 ’16 18 ’17 102 ’18 24 ’19 24 ’20 33 ’21 13 ’22 7.0 ’23 20 ’24 31 ’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
Oct 11, 2018 Hurricane Michael 2,516 100% 3.8 d 2.9 d 148k
Feb 13, 2021 Ice storm 2,131 85% 2.4 d 33 h 52k
Dec 9, 2018 Winter storm 2,374 94% 2.3 d 34 h 32k
Mar 2, 2018 Windstorm 1,110 44% 2.5 d 21 h 26k
Jul 27, 2025 Thunderstorms 1,693 67% 35 h 22 h 21k
Oct 8, 2016 Hurricane Matthew 2,516 100% 48 h 5.5 h 15k
Jul 17, 2019 No storm report 2,516 100% 12 h 8.8 h 14k
Aug 4, 2020 Hurricane Isaias 969 39% 32 h 8.5 h 13k
Feb 6, 2020 No storm report 1,550 62% 35 h 2.8 h 12k
Jul 21, 2020 No storm report 1,773 70% 20 h 9.2 h 11k
Jun 19, 2025 No storm report 753 30% 22 h 21 h 9.2k
Apr 15, 2019 No storm report 1,353 54% 15 h 13 h 9.0k

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

  • No storm on record 45%
  • Tropical storm 28%
  • Ice storm 8.5%
  • Thunderstorms 7.6%
  • Winter storm 5.6%
  • Windstorm 4.3%
  • Flooding 0.7%
  • Heat 0.5%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Charles City

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

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 2,516 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 →