Power Out Map
– 0% of King and Queen out 0 customers out in Virginia

Power outage history

King and Queen County Virginia

24hours

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

29th most of 123 in Virginia 3.7× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Michael · Oct 11, 2018 100% of customers out · 90% back in 3.6 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 24h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 12.5 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 3.9days 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 3.9 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 2,679 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 King and Queen's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2018 was the worst well-recorded year, at 3.9 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

King and Queen, hours without power per customer

King and QueenUS median countyVirginia average
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 5.9 ’15 17 ’16 15 ’17 93 ’18 11 ’19 22 ’20 34 ’21 8.7 ’22 5.8 ’23 11 ’24 7.9 ’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 2,679 100% 3.9 d 3.6 d 134k
Feb 13, 2021 Ice storm 2,323 87% 3.4 d 44 h 55k
May 14, 2018 Thunderstorms 2,190 82% 2.1 d 33 h 40k
Mar 2, 2018 Windstorm 1,836 69% 3.2 d 24 h 32k
Dec 9, 2018 Winter storm 1,837 69% 2.0 d 36 h 26k
Aug 3, 2024 Thunderstorms 1,578 59% 14 h 13 h 17k
Jul 21, 2020 Thunderstorms 1,306 49% 24 h 1.2 h 13k
Aug 4, 2020 Hurricane Isaias 1,054 39% 35 h 31 h 13k
Jul 29, 2021 Thunderstorms 1,499 56% 17 h 15 h 12k
Oct 9, 2016 Hurricane Matthew 1,381 52% 21 h 8.0 h 9.8k
Feb 24, 2016 Tornadoes 1,207 45% 26 h 16 h 9.2k
Dec 9, 2017 Winter storm 1,077 40% 27 h 9.2 h 7.8k

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.

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

  • Tropical storm 30%
  • No storm on record 28%
  • Thunderstorms 19%
  • Ice storm 11%
  • Windstorm 6.3%
  • Winter storm 5.5%
  • Flooding 0.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving King and Queen

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
Rappahannock Electric Coop Cooperative 428 220 2.50 15.5 173k

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+

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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 2,679 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 →