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

Power outage history

Warren County Virginia

5.8hours

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

99th most of 123 in Virginia close to the national median

Worst outage on record Sep 19, 2022 6% of customers out · 90% back in 6.8 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 5.8h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 1.8 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 5hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 6.7days Sep 19, 2022, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 47% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2022 15 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 23,404 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 Warren'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

2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 15 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Warren, hours without power per customer

WarrenUS median countyVirginia average
0 5 10 15 20 3.0 ’15 8.6 ’16 3.2 ’17 7.2 ’18 4.8 ’19 1.9 ’20 2.8 ’21 15 ’22 2.9 ’23 8.1 ’24 4.3 ’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 19, 2022 No storm report 1,319 6% 6.7 d 6.8 d 211k
Jun 16, 2016 Thunderstorms 7,739 33% 2.1 d 32 h 112k
Mar 2, 2018 Windstorm 3,733 16% 2.7 d 6.5 h 92k
Aug 9, 2024 Hurricane Debby 2,965 13% 43 h 31 h 57k
Dec 15, 2022 Ice storm 2,010 9% 46 h 35 h 55k
Jun 26, 2024 Thunderstorms 3,403 15% 20 h 16 h 42k
Feb 12, 2019 Winter storm 1,950 8% 36 h 14 h 34k
Nov 15, 2018 Winter storm 2,477 11% 17 h 14 h 24k
Oct 23, 2017 No storm report 2,574 11% 18 h 17 h 24k
Feb 24, 2019 Windstorm 2,380 10% 21 h 9.0 h 23k
May 16, 2016 No storm report 2,424 10% 12 h 11 h 21k
Jul 27, 2016 No storm report 4,850 21% 4.8 h 11 h 19k

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 +8h 90% by +22h

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

  • No storm on record 53%
  • Windstorm 15%
  • Winter storm 8.6%
  • Thunderstorms 8.5%
  • Ice storm 7.5%
  • Tropical storm 6.7%
  • Flooding 0.7%
  • Heat 0.5%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Warren

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
Town of Front Royal VA – – – 12.4 91k
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 23,404 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 →