Power outage history
Prince George County Virginia
5.2hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
103rd most of 123 in Virginia 21% below the national median
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 Prince George's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 13 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Prince George, hours without power per customer
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 | 6,427 | 28% | 3.3 d | 2.1 d | 174k |
| Oct 11, 2018 | Hurricane Michael | 6,156 | 27% | 44 h | 19 h | 78k |
| Jun 16, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 4,587 | 20% | 24 h | 19 h | 37k |
| Jul 26, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 2,070 | 9% | 27 h | 12 h | 36k |
| Aug 14, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 3,946 | 17% | 13 h | 13 h | 32k |
| Jan 9, 2024 | No storm report | 4,233 | 19% | 10 h | 3.0 h | 22k |
| Oct 20, 2019 | Tropical Storm Nestor | 4,145 | 18% | 6.5 h | 6.0 h | 22k |
| Dec 9, 2018 | Winter storm | 1,928 | 8% | 25 h | 22 h | 20k |
| Jun 25, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 2,500 | 11% | 8.5 h | 8.0 h | 19k |
| Jun 19, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 3,010 | 13% | 11 h | 9.5 h | 16k |
| May 24, 2024 | No storm report | 2,065 | 9% | 8.5 h | 7.5 h | 16k |
| Sep 25, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 2,769 | 12% | 18 h | 13 h | 16k |
| Aug 3, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 1,435 | 6% | 19 h | 19 h | 14k |
| Apr 15, 2022 | No storm report | 1,970 | 9% | 6.0 h | 3.0 h | 12k |
| May 14, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 2,477 | 11% | 5.2 h | 3.0 h | 11k |
| Mar 22, 2019 | No storm report | 2,470 | 11% | 4.8 h | 4.8 h | 11k |
| Jul 1, 2025 | No storm report | 1,206 | 5% | 11 h | 8.5 h | 11k |
| Jul 21, 2025 | No storm report | 1,380 | 6% | 10 h | 8.8 h | 9.9k |
| Feb 7, 2020 | No storm report | 602 | 3% | 23 h | – | 9.9k |
| Feb 16, 2025 | No storm report | 1,676 | 7% | 9.5 h | 1.5 h | 9.4k |
| Oct 21, 2019 | Tropical Storm Nestor | 3,869 | 17% | 4.8 h | 4.8 h | 9.3k |
| Jun 6, 2016 | No storm report | 2,694 | 12% | 3.2 h | 4.0 h | 7.9k |
| Mar 2, 2018 | No storm report | 434 | 2% | 23 h | – | 7.6k |
| Dec 24, 2020 | No storm report | 3,429 | 15% | 2.5 h | 1.5 h | 7.2k |
| Jul 8, 2025 | No storm report | 1,571 | 7% | 6.8 h | 5.2 h | 7.2k |
| Jul 1, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 2,776 | 12% | 2.8 h | 2.0 h | 7.1k |
| Jul 19, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 1,229 | 5% | 7.2 h | 5.8 h | 7.0k |
| Aug 30, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 1,231 | 5% | 5.8 h | 12 h | 6.6k |
| Jan 6, 2018 | No storm report | 2,534 | 11% | 3.5 h | 3.5 h | 6.5k |
| Jul 14, 2025 | Flooding | 1,477 | 6% | 8.0 h | 4.5 h | 6.4k |
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 Prince George from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 32%
- Thunderstorms 27%
- Ice storm 22%
- Tropical storm 14%
- Winter storm 3.0%
- Flooding 1.6%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Prince George
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 |
| Prince George Electric Coop | Cooperative | 383 | 222 | – | 13.5 | 11k |
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
- Charles City 32 h
- Dinwiddie 27 h
- Petersburg 12 h
- Surry 9.2 h
- Sussex 8.0 h
- Chesterfield 7.4 h
- Prince George (this county) 5.2 h
- Hopewell 4.6 h
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 22,790 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 →