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

Power outage history

Tazewell County Virginia

19hours

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

42nd most of 123 in Virginia 2.9× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Helene · Sep 27, 2024 88% of customers out · 90% back in 6.1 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 19h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 2.4 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 6hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 8.6days Hurricane Helene, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 80% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2024 3.9 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 21,376 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 Tazewell'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

2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 3.9 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Tazewell, hours without power per customer

TazewellUS median countyVirginia average
0 10 20 30 8.1 ’15 3.5 ’16 4.5 ’17 11 ’18 8.5 ’19 5.8 ’20 6.8 ’21 10 ’22 5.8 ’23 93 ’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
Sep 27, 2024 Hurricane Helene 18,835 88% 8.6 d 6.1 d 1.8M
Jan 6, 2025 Winter storm 2,603 12% 3.8 d 3.3 d 127k
Mar 24, 2018 Winter storm 2,656 12% 2.0 d 41 h 51k
Feb 20, 2019 Windstorm 6,723 31% 16 h 8.5 h 46k
Jun 17, 2022 Thunderstorms 2,760 13% 46 h 41 h 38k
May 26, 2024 Thunderstorms 2,432 11% 40 h 24 h 36k
Jul 13, 2015 Thunderstorms 2,970 14% 23 h 17 h 33k
Jan 8, 2024 No storm report 2,165 10% 20 h 13 h 23k
May 6, 2023 No storm report 2,723 13% 12 h 9.8 h 19k
Jan 13, 2019 Winter storm 5,370 25% 4.2 h 1.8 h 15k
Jul 11, 2015 No storm report 972 5% 14 h – 13k
Oct 18, 2018 No storm report 6,299 29% 2.8 h 12 h 12k

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

  • Tropical storm 65%
  • No storm on record 20%
  • Winter storm 7.8%
  • Thunderstorms 3.9%
  • Windstorm 2.1%
  • Flooding 0.7%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Tazewell

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
Appalachian Power Co Investor Owned 1,116 328 2.36 17.2 468k
Town of Richlands VA – – – – 29k

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 21,376 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 →