Power Out Map
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Power outage history

King William County Virginia

8.6hours

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

75th most of 123 in Virginia 1.3× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Michael · Oct 12, 2018 53% of customers out · 90% back in 44 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 8.6h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 5.1 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 3.8days Hurricane Michael, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 69% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2018 25 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 8,030 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 William'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 25 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

King William, hours without power per customer

King WilliamUS median countyVirginia average
0 10 20 30 2.0 ’15 9.7 ’16 4.4 ’17 25 ’18 2.9 ’19 5.0 ’20 14 ’21 7.3 ’22 3.5 ’23 3.0 ’24 8.4 ’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 4,288 53% 3.8 d 44 h 117k
Feb 13, 2021 Ice storm 3,455 43% 2.4 d 13 h 68k
Jun 16, 2016 Thunderstorms 3,616 45% 15 h 11 h 31k
Jun 17, 2022 Thunderstorms 6,442 80% 21 h 9.8 h 30k
Jun 19, 2025 Thunderstorms 3,239 40% 24 h 16 h 25k
May 14, 2018 No storm report 1,820 23% 28 h 23 h 20k
Mar 2, 2018 Windstorm 1,585 20% 2.1 d 4.8 h 19k
Dec 9, 2018 Winter storm 1,813 23% 26 h 15 h 16k
Jul 29, 2021 Thunderstorms 2,139 27% 22 h 20 h 14k
Aug 4, 2020 Hurricane Isaias 1,458 18% 15 h 7.2 h 12k
Feb 24, 2016 Thunderstorms 1,707 21% 20 h 2.0 h 10k
Dec 9, 2017 Winter storm 1,159 14% 22 h 10 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.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +4h 90% by +20h

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

  • No storm on record 31%
  • Tropical storm 27%
  • Thunderstorms 18%
  • Ice storm 14%
  • Winter storm 5.1%
  • Windstorm 3.9%
  • Flooding 1.1%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving King William

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 8,030 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 →