– 0% of Henry out 0 customers out in Virginia

Power outage history

Henry County Virginia

17hours

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

52nd most of 123 in Virginia 2.6× the national median

Worst outage on record Mar 2, 2018 52% of customers out · 90% back in 2.9 days

Hours without power, average customer per year 17h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h

Major outages a year 3.9 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers

Typical time to restore 90% 6hours Median across major outages, from the peak

Longest single outage 4.5days Feb 13, 2021, over 1% of customers out

Outage hours on storm days 78% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here

Worst year 2018 2.0 days without power, average customer

Electricity customers 26,850 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 Henry'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 2.0 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Henry, hours without power per customer

HenryUS median countyVirginia average

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
Mar 2, 2018	Windstorm	13,861	52%	3.8 d	2.9 d	503k
Feb 13, 2021	Winter storm	9,037	34%	4.5 d	2.8 d	307k
Oct 11, 2018	Hurricane Michael	11,310	42%	3.1 d	2.1 d	303k
Mar 24, 2018	Winter storm	9,954	37%	2.9 d	47 h	245k
Feb 12, 2025	Winter storm	4,345	16%	2.6 d	2.1 d	121k
Jul 25, 2015	No storm report	2,007	7%	39 h	36 h	68k
Jan 3, 2022	Winter storm	5,103	19%	41 h	29 h	66k
Sep 30, 2022	Hurricane Ian	3,578	13%	46 h	36 h	63k
Apr 8, 2020	Thunderstorms	2,972	11%	45 h	30 h	53k
May 11, 2017	Thunderstorms	3,323	12%	24 h	23 h	52k
Jun 17, 2022	Thunderstorms	3,609	13%	45 h	42 h	50k
Feb 16, 2016	Winter storm	5,670	21%	18 h	7.2 h	50k
Dec 23, 2022	Windstorm	2,183	8%	2.5 d	2.3 d	49k
Dec 8, 2017	Winter storm	3,184	12%	38 h	21 h	48k
Apr 1, 2023	Windstorm	3,016	11%	20 h	16 h	46k
Jan 6, 2025	No storm report	3,065	11%	44 h	29 h	44k
Oct 29, 2020	Hurricane Zeta	6,056	23%	13 h	5.5 h	34k
Nov 20, 2024	Windstorm	4,019	15%	19 h	14 h	31k
Dec 9, 2018	Winter storm	3,216	12%	35 h	5.0 h	30k
May 16, 2023	Thunderstorms	2,497	9%	22 h	18 h	30k
Oct 31, 2019	No storm report	1,668	6%	30 h	20 h	29k
Jan 13, 2019	Winter storm	1,478	6%	34 h	23 h	27k
Aug 7, 2023	Thunderstorms	1,617	6%	26 h	23 h	26k
Feb 16, 2025	Windstorm	1,652	6%	22 h	18 h	25k
May 24, 2020	Flooding	3,745	14%	19 h	4.0 h	24k
Feb 14, 2015	No storm report	1,401	5%	22 h	17 h	23k
Aug 17, 2016	Thunderstorms	2,836	11%	21 h	19 h	22k
Sep 27, 2024	Windstorm	2,870	11%	29 h	22 h	21k
Feb 24, 2019	No storm report	1,466	5%	26 h	35 h	19k
Apr 26, 2019	No storm report	1,140	4%	16 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.

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

Winter storm 27%
Windstorm 23%
No storm on record 22%
Tropical storm 14%
Thunderstorms 12%
Flooding 1.3%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Henry

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
Appalachian Power Co	Investor Owned	1,116	328	2.36	17.2	468k
City of Martinsville	VA	7	7	0.05	11.8	79k
City of Danville	Municipal	–	–	–	15.8	38k

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

Patrick 32 h
Pittsylvania 24 h
Franklin 23 h
Henry (this county) 17 h
Rockingham, NC 11 h
Stokes, NC 9.9 h

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 26,850 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 →