Power outage history
Gloucester County Virginia
17hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
50th most of 123 in Virginia 2.6× the national median
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 Gloucester's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2018 was the worst well-recorded year, at 3.1 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Gloucester, hours without power per customer
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 | 15,330 | 100% | 4.7 d | 3.5 d | 690k |
| Mar 2, 2018 | Windstorm | 8,761 | 57% | 3.4 d | 45 h | 203k |
| Dec 9, 2018 | Winter storm | 8,148 | 53% | 43 h | 22 h | 138k |
| Aug 4, 2020 | Hurricane Isaias | 7,295 | 48% | 45 h | 32 h | 138k |
| Jun 21, 2023 | No storm report | 5,656 | 37% | 29 h | 13 h | 38k |
| Jun 20, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 4,397 | 29% | 16 h | 1.2 h | 36k |
| Feb 24, 2016 | No storm report | 6,167 | 40% | 18 h | 12 h | 34k |
| Mar 5, 2025 | No storm report | 6,353 | 41% | 25 h | 12 h | 25k |
| Nov 20, 2024 | No storm report | 3,903 | 25% | 14 h | 13 h | 25k |
| Aug 2, 2024 | No storm report | 6,054 | 39% | 18 h | 11 h | 23k |
| Jul 21, 2020 | No storm report | 4,119 | 27% | 21 h | 13 h | 23k |
| Oct 8, 2016 | Hurricane Matthew | 4,909 | 32% | 42 h | 1.8 h | 23k |
| Sep 30, 2022 | No storm report | 3,977 | 26% | 23 h | 16 h | 23k |
| Jul 18, 2015 | No storm report | 8,163 | 53% | 19 h | 30 min | 23k |
| Jul 8, 2021 | Hurricane Elsa | 4,586 | 30% | 17 h | 14 h | 22k |
| Sep 25, 2022 | No storm report | 3,286 | 21% | 18 h | 15 h | 20k |
| Apr 15, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 2,484 | 16% | 15 h | 12 h | 18k |
| Aug 3, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 2,790 | 18% | 17 h | 13 h | 17k |
| Jun 17, 2018 | No storm report | 10,749 | 70% | 3.2 h | 2.8 h | 17k |
| Jun 19, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 6,161 | 40% | 9.2 h | 1.5 h | 17k |
| May 30, 2020 | No storm report | 5,935 | 39% | 3.8 h | 3.5 h | 15k |
| Aug 6, 2016 | No storm report | 5,756 | 38% | 3.5 h | 3.2 h | 14k |
| Sep 2, 2016 | Hurricane Hermine | 1,504 | 10% | 15 h | 10 h | 13k |
| Apr 25, 2017 | No storm report | 1,362 | 9% | 12 h | 8.8 h | 13k |
| Feb 7, 2020 | No storm report | 4,200 | 27% | 23 h | 3.2 h | 13k |
| Nov 18, 2025 | No storm report | 4,448 | 29% | 4.0 h | 1.8 h | 13k |
| Jan 9, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 3,502 | 23% | 14 h | 5.0 h | 13k |
| Jan 16, 2022 | No storm report | 3,794 | 25% | 17 h | 4.2 h | 11k |
| May 13, 2025 | No storm report | 1,750 | 11% | 16 h | 13 h | 11k |
| Jul 27, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 1,183 | 8% | 11 h | 15 h | 10k |
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.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Gloucester from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Tropical storm 44%
- No storm on record 31%
- Windstorm 10%
- Winter storm 7.7%
- Thunderstorms 5.4%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Gloucester
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
- Mathews 31 h
- Middlesex 27 h
- King and Queen 24 h
- Gloucester (this county) 17 h
- James City 7.2 h
- York 6.9 h
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 15,330 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 →