Power Out Map
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Power outage history

Lexington City Virginia

3.6hours

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

45% below the national median

Worst outage on record Mar 2, 2018 61% of customers out · 90% back in 9.0 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 3.6h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 5.8 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 26hours Jun 17, 2022, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 21% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2019 5.4 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 2,991 EAGLE-I 2024 count · 4 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 Lexington'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

2019 was the worst well-recorded year, at 5.4 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Lexington, hours without power per customer

LexingtonUS median countyVirginia average
0 2 4 6 8 10 ’15 1.4 ’16 ’17 ’18 5.4 ’19 ’20 ’21 ’22 4.6 ’23 0.8 ’24 3.7 ’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
Mar 2, 2018 Windstorm 1,817 61% 15 h 9.0 h 12k
Jul 28, 2023 No storm report 1,257 42% 25 h 24 h 11k
Feb 24, 2019 No storm report 1,055 35% 24 h 1.0 h 8.8k
Jun 17, 2022 No storm report 494 17% 26 h 21 h 8.4k
Jun 17, 2025 No storm report 890 30% 5.5 h 11 h 4.8k
Apr 8, 2020 No storm report 1,081 36% 9.2 h 3.0 h 3.8k
Sep 22, 2016 No storm report 824 28% 4.0 h 11 h 2.2k
Apr 29, 2020 No storm report 1,952 65% 1.5 h 1.5 h 2.0k
Jul 28, 2020 No storm report 207 7% 7.8 h 7.5 h 1.5k
Jun 23, 2025 No storm report 406 14% 3.5 h – 1.4k
Jul 18, 2025 No storm report 1,068 36% 6.0 h 6.0 h 1.4k
Jun 25, 2016 No storm report 312 10% 5.2 h 4.0 h 1.3k

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 +6h

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

  • No storm on record 80%
  • Windstorm 16%
  • Thunderstorms 2.3%
  • Winter storm 1.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Lexington

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 2,991 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 →