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

Power outage history

Floyd County Virginia

42hours

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

8th most of 123 in Virginia 6.4× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 13, 2025 100% of customers out · 90% back in 4.2 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 42h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 9.3 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 4hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 5.8days Feb 11, 2025, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 80% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2018 3.7 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 8,655 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 Floyd'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 3.7 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Floyd, hours without power per customer

FloydUS median countyVirginia average
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 4.9 ’15 7.7 ’16 5.7 ’17 90 ’18 29 ’19 15 ’20 50 ’21 20 ’22 7.3 ’23 40 ’24 86 ’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 11, 2025 Winter storm 8,655 100% 5.8 d 4.2 d 617k
Nov 15, 2018 Ice storm 8,052 93% 4.5 d 3.9 d 393k
Feb 13, 2021 Winter storm 7,346 85% 4.3 d 2.4 d 330k
Sep 26, 2024 Windstorm 5,067 59% 4.9 d 2.1 d 205k
Mar 24, 2018 Winter storm 5,358 62% 3.9 d 2.6 d 185k
Mar 1, 2018 Windstorm 4,601 53% 2.8 d 31 h 71k
Feb 24, 2019 Windstorm 3,400 39% 28 h 23 h 65k
Jan 6, 2025 Winter storm 4,036 47% 37 h 18 h 60k
Oct 31, 2019 Thunderstorms 2,177 25% 29 h 3.8 h 44k
Feb 24, 2022 No storm report 1,124 13% 30 h 30 h 31k
Jul 26, 2024 No storm report 8,156 94% 5.2 h 5.0 h 30k
Jun 17, 2022 Thunderstorms 1,578 18% 45 h 40 h 29k

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 +12h 90% by +32h

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

  • Winter storm 45%
  • No storm on record 20%
  • Ice storm 14%
  • Windstorm 14%
  • Thunderstorms 6.5%
  • Tropical storm 1.4%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Floyd

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 8,655 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 →