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

Power outage history

Shenandoah County Virginia

7.8hours

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

82nd most of 123 in Virginia 1.2× the national median

Worst outage on record Jul 28, 2023 24% of customers out · 90% back in 38 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 7.8h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 6.8 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 47hours Jul 28, 2023, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 42% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2025 11 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 18,066 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 Shenandoah'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

2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 11 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Shenandoah, hours without power per customer

ShenandoahUS median countyVirginia average
0 5 10 15 2.1 ’15 5.2 ’16 4.5 ’17 6.5 ’18 11 ’19 4.1 ’20 3.9 ’21 9.1 ’22 8.5 ’23 9.1 ’24 11 ’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
Jul 28, 2023 Thunderstorms 4,288 24% 47 h 38 h 71k
Feb 24, 2019 No storm report 6,702 37% 26 h 20 h 49k
Mar 20, 2024 Wildfire 6,940 38% 26 h 19 h 44k
Mar 2, 2018 Windstorm 2,192 12% 40 h 24 h 37k
Feb 6, 2025 Winter storm 2,480 14% 17 h 10 h 23k
May 25, 2019 Thunderstorms 3,635 20% 15 h 3.2 h 18k
May 6, 2022 No storm report 4,585 25% 8.0 h 6.5 h 17k
Feb 16, 2025 No storm report 1,608 9% 26 h 25 h 16k
Apr 2, 2016 No storm report 3,215 18% 14 h 13 h 16k
Jul 8, 2025 Thunderstorms 2,778 15% 7.5 h 7.0 h 16k
Feb 17, 2022 No storm report 2,184 12% 7.2 h 13 h 15k
Mar 23, 2024 No storm report 2,764 15% 11 h 11 h 13k

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 +14h

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

  • No storm on record 58%
  • Thunderstorms 21%
  • Winter storm 6.0%
  • Wildfire 5.1%
  • Windstorm 4.5%
  • Tropical storm 2.2%
  • Ice storm 1.5%
  • Flooding 0.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Shenandoah

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
Rappahannock Electric Coop Cooperative 428 220 2.50 15.5 173k
Shenandoah Valley Elec Coop Cooperative 391 258 2.78 14.5 87k

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 18,066 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 →