Power Out Map
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Power outage history

Greensville County Virginia

5.6hours

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

101st most of 123 in Virginia 15% below the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 13, 2021 43% of customers out · 90% back in 3.0 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 5.6h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 1.3 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 3.7days Feb 13, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 66% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 18 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 5,788 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 Greensville'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

2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 18 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Greensville, hours without power per customer

GreensvilleUS median countyVirginia average
0 5 10 15 20 3.6 ’15 13 ’16 6.7 ’17 8.9 ’18 5.2 ’19 2.5 ’20 18 ’21 2.4 ’22 2.5 ’23 4.1 ’24 1.4 ’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 13, 2021 Ice storm 2,505 43% 3.7 d 3.0 d 91k
Dec 7, 2016 No storm report 1,355 23% 24 h 2.5 h 29k
Oct 11, 2018 Hurricane Michael 690 12% 43 h 19 h 24k
Jul 5, 2017 No storm report 2,094 36% 9.0 h 14 h 16k
Apr 19, 2019 Tornadoes 1,996 34% 13 h 12 h 11k
May 6, 2016 No storm report 714 12% 15 h 30 min 9.9k
Jul 17, 2019 No storm report 523 9% 16 h 4.8 h 8.1k
Jun 5, 2016 No storm report 901 16% 13 h 11 h 6.3k
Jan 24, 2018 No storm report 1,138 20% 5.2 h 5.2 h 6.0k
Jul 18, 2024 Thunderstorms 2,095 36% 12 h 6.8 h 5.7k
Sep 26, 2015 No storm report 2,126 37% 6.8 h 1.2 h 4.2k
Apr 17, 2017 No storm report 445 8% 11 h 14 h 4.1k

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 +10h

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

  • Ice storm 40%
  • No storm on record 34%
  • Tropical storm 13%
  • Thunderstorms 5.0%
  • Tornadoes 4.8%
  • Winter storm 2.5%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Greensville

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
Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative Cooperative 721 244 2.83 14.3 30k

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 5,788 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 →