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

Power outage history

Southampton County Virginia

14hours

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

56th most of 123 in Virginia 2.2× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Isaias · Aug 4, 2020 75% of customers out · 90% back in 38 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 14h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 10.6 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 47hours Hurricane Matthew, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 52% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 37 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 4,783 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 Southampton'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

2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 37 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Southampton, hours without power per customer

SouthamptonUS median countyVirginia average
0 10 20 30 40 50 2.3 ’15 10 ’16 4.6 ’17 9.6 ’18 14 ’19 37 ’20 9.8 ’21 9.7 ’22 10 ’23 8.0 ’24 15 ’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
Aug 4, 2020 Hurricane Isaias 3,569 75% 45 h 38 h 99k
Feb 20, 2020 Winter storm 3,292 69% 32 h 17 h 38k
Oct 8, 2016 Hurricane Matthew 1,724 36% 47 h 28 h 31k
Oct 11, 2018 Hurricane Michael 1,592 33% 35 h 5.0 h 15k
May 16, 2025 Thunderstorms 1,596 33% 24 h 19 h 12k
Mar 19, 2021 No storm report 4,453 93% 4.2 h 2.2 h 12k
Oct 12, 2025 No storm report 2,662 56% 6.0 h 5.5 h 11k
Jul 5, 2017 No storm report 1,142 24% 9.0 h 10 h 10k
Aug 11, 2019 No storm report 2,616 55% 4.2 h 13 h 9.8k
Sep 8, 2023 Thunderstorms 2,636 55% 4.2 h 4.5 h 9.6k
Jul 3, 2023 Thunderstorms 3,355 70% 11 h 1.8 h 9.1k
Jan 9, 2024 No storm report 563 12% 24 h 8.0 h 8.4k

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.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +6h 90% by +10h

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

  • No storm on record 48%
  • Tropical storm 25%
  • Thunderstorms 17%
  • Winter storm 9.2%
  • Tornadoes 0.5%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Southampton

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
Community Electric Coop VA 240 219 1.93 11.3 165k
City of Franklin VA – – – 12.5 67k
Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative Cooperative 721 244 2.83 14.3 30k
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

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 4,783 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 →