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

Power outage history

Patrick County Virginia

32hours

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

15th most of 123 in Virginia 4.9× the national median

Worst outage on record Mar 3, 2018 65% of customers out · 90% back in 2.1 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 32h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 6.6 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 14.9days Jan 24, 2017, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 67% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2018 3.2 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 10,828 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 Patrick's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2018 was the worst well-recorded year, at 3.2 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Patrick, hours without power per customer

PatrickUS median countyVirginia average
0 20 40 60 80 100 11 ’15 15 ’16 16 ’17 78 ’18 22 ’19 21 ’20 13 ’21 30 ’22 19 ’23 34 ’24 39 ’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 7,071 65% 3.8 d 2.1 d 310k
Sep 26, 2024 Windstorm 4,091 38% 6.6 d 3.2 d 211k
Oct 11, 2018 Hurricane Michael 5,322 49% 3.0 d 14 h 198k
Feb 12, 2025 Winter storm 4,236 39% 3.8 d 2.3 d 195k
Jan 6, 2025 Winter storm 8,374 77% 2.1 d 24 h 131k
Sep 30, 2022 Hurricane Ian 4,961 46% 2.4 d 28 h 129k
Nov 15, 2018 No storm report 1,747 16% 5.2 d 4.3 d 117k
Mar 24, 2018 Winter storm 3,772 35% 2.9 d 2.1 d 105k
Apr 8, 2020 No storm report 3,933 36% 46 h 6.8 h 99k
Oct 31, 2019 No storm report 3,813 35% 46 h 20 h 67k
Feb 13, 2021 Winter storm 1,867 17% 4.1 d 2.2 d 64k
Jun 17, 2022 Thunderstorms 4,003 37% 2.2 d 25 h 43k

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 +10h 90% by +36h

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

  • No storm on record 33%
  • Windstorm 24%
  • Winter storm 21%
  • Tropical storm 15%
  • Thunderstorms 6.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Patrick

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
Appalachian Power Co Investor Owned 1,116 328 2.36 17.2 468k
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

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 10,828 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 →