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

Power outage history

Petersburg City Virginia

12hours

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

62nd most of 123 in Virginia 1.8× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 13, 2021 77% of customers out · 90% back in 2.4 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 12h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 5.3 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 4.2days Feb 13, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 72% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 36 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 14,894 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 Petersburg'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

2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 36 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Petersburg, hours without power per customer

PetersburgUS median countyVirginia average
0 10 20 30 40 50 3.3 ’15 4.5 ’16 4.0 ’17 11 ’18 4.1 ’19 4.5 ’20 36 ’21 14 ’22 12 ’23 4.0 ’24 7.1 ’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
Feb 13, 2021 Ice storm 11,431 77% 4.2 d 2.4 d 496k
Jun 16, 2023 Thunderstorms 11,320 76% 47 h 25 h 148k
Jun 22, 2022 Thunderstorms 8,087 54% 30 h 29 h 102k
Oct 11, 2018 Hurricane Michael 4,741 32% 2.0 d 37 h 82k
Sep 25, 2022 No storm report 3,283 22% 24 h 20 h 39k
Jun 19, 2025 No storm report 2,926 20% 22 h 21 h 23k
Feb 7, 2020 No storm report 2,361 16% 17 h 13 h 17k
Dec 9, 2018 Winter storm 950 6% 22 h 15 h 14k
Jun 20, 2015 No storm report 3,566 24% 11 h 2.8 h 14k
May 14, 2016 No storm report 2,900 19% 5.0 h 4.2 h 12k
Jul 28, 2025 Heat 3,845 26% 4.8 h 4.8 h 9.1k
Apr 26, 2019 No storm report 3,599 24% 9.0 h 8.0 h 8.5k

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 +16h

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

  • Ice storm 40%
  • No storm on record 28%
  • Thunderstorms 21%
  • Tropical storm 7.8%
  • Winter storm 1.6%
  • Heat 1.1%
  • Flooding 0.7%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Petersburg

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+

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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 14,894 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 →