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

Power outage history

Hampton City Virginia

5.2hours

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

102nd most of 123 in Virginia 21% below the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Michael · Oct 12, 2018 47% of customers out · 90% back in 42 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 5.2h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 0.9 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 5hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 2.8days Hurricane Michael, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 72% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2018 14 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 58,889 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 Hampton'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 14 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Hampton, hours without power per customer

HamptonUS median countyVirginia average
0 5 10 15 20 1.9 ’15 12 ’16 3.0 ’17 14 ’18 2.7 ’19 11 ’20 1.9 ’21 4.7 ’22 2.5 ’23 2.7 ’24 2.4 ’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
Oct 11, 2018 Hurricane Michael 27,605 47% 2.8 d 42 h 651k
Aug 4, 2020 Hurricane Isaias 24,593 42% 2.4 d 31 h 551k
Oct 8, 2016 Hurricane Matthew 19,285 33% 2.7 d 29 h 459k
Sep 30, 2022 No storm report 6,003 10% 23 h 20 h 80k
Dec 23, 2022 No storm report 6,971 12% 15 h 10 h 63k
Jan 19, 2017 No storm report 7,084 12% 6.5 h 4.5 h 35k
Sep 3, 2016 Hurricane Hermine 5,356 9% 12 h 9.5 h 31k
Aug 2, 2024 No storm report 3,197 5% 21 h 21 h 22k
Jun 25, 2023 No storm report 8,415 14% 3.0 h 2.2 h 21k
May 31, 2017 Thunderstorms 4,297 7% 11 h 10 h 19k
Jul 27, 2025 Heat 8,765 15% 3.2 h 3.0 h 17k
Jan 23, 2016 Winter storm 4,559 8% 9.8 h 4.2 h 17k

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 +4h 90% by +12h

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

  • Tropical storm 68%
  • No storm on record 28%
  • Heat 1.5%
  • Thunderstorms 1.2%
  • Flooding 1.1%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Hampton

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+

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 58,889 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 →