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Power outage history

Powhatan County Virginia

21hours

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

38th most of 123 in Virginia 3.2× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Michael · Oct 11, 2018 94% of customers out · 90% back in 2.9 days

Hours without power, average customer per year 21h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h

Major outages a year 7.0 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 5.0days Hurricane Michael, over 1% of customers out

Outage hours on storm days 71% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here

Worst year 2018 2.1 days without power, average customer

Electricity customers 12,936 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 Powhatan'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 2.1 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Powhatan, hours without power per customer

PowhatanUS median countyVirginia average

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	12,158	94%	5.0 d	2.9 d	428k
Feb 12, 2025	Winter storm	10,022	77%	2.9 d	46 h	261k
Jan 3, 2022	Winter storm	10,653	82%	3.3 d	2.2 d	237k
Feb 13, 2021	Ice storm	4,951	38%	4.0 d	2.4 d	185k
Mar 2, 2018	No storm report	5,951	46%	2.5 d	48 h	132k
Jan 6, 2025	Winter storm	5,279	41%	37 h	27 h	89k
Dec 9, 2017	Winter storm	4,923	38%	44 h	22 h	76k
Oct 9, 2016	Thunderstorms	3,714	29%	27 h	4.2 h	28k
Jan 13, 2019	Winter storm	2,064	16%	34 h	16 h	26k
Jun 19, 2025	Thunderstorms	5,400	42%	12 h	9.0 h	25k
Jan 9, 2024	Flooding	3,603	28%	29 h	20 h	25k
Feb 7, 2020	No storm report	3,087	24%	28 h	25 h	25k
Jan 31, 2016	No storm report	2,386	18%	9.8 h	9.8 h	23k
Jul 25, 2022	No storm report	2,845	22%	35 h	7.2 h	22k
Jun 26, 2025	No storm report	5,229	40%	9.8 h	9.0 h	20k
Feb 16, 2025	No storm report	3,195	25%	24 h	17 h	19k
Aug 5, 2022	No storm report	1,691	13%	19 h	17 h	17k
Jul 23, 2017	No storm report	5,017	39%	14 h	2.8 h	16k
Dec 23, 2022	No storm report	4,238	33%	24 h	7.5 h	16k
May 14, 2018	Thunderstorms	4,517	35%	10 h	5.5 h	15k
Aug 29, 2024	Thunderstorms	1,003	8%	19 h	13 h	15k
Jul 28, 2016	No storm report	6,922	54%	14 h	1.5 h	15k
Apr 26, 2022	Thunderstorms	1,764	14%	13 h	13 h	14k
Jun 20, 2015	Tropical Storm Bill	926	7%	24 h	18 h	13k
Jun 16, 2016	No storm report	1,796	14%	29 h	21 h	13k
Jul 29, 2023	Thunderstorms	2,865	22%	19 h	9.8 h	12k
Sep 30, 2022	Hurricane Ian	2,951	23%	9.8 h	9.5 h	11k
Oct 2, 2015	No storm report	1,798	14%	6.5 h	6.5 h	10k
Jan 27, 2022	No storm report	2,463	19%	6.2 h	6.2 h	10k
Jun 25, 2015	Thunderstorms	1,120	9%	16 h	12 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.

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Powhatan from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

Winter storm 31%
No storm on record 29%
Tropical storm 24%
Ice storm 9.2%
Thunderstorms 6.1%
Flooding 1.4%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Powhatan

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
Southside Electric Coop, Inc	Cooperative	2,127	324	4.45	15.5	57k

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

Cumberland 42 h
Amelia 38 h
Powhatan (this county) 21 h
Goochland 18 h
Henrico 10 h
Chesterfield 7.4 h

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 12,936 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 →