– 0 customers out in the US

January 2022 · 38th largest of 72

Winter storm

Jan 3, 2022. At the peak, 840,833 customers were without power, most of them in Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia.

Winter storm
Customers out at the peak 840,833 Jan 3, 2022, 11:00 AM
Customer-hours lost 21M Every customer out, times every hour out
Counties with 10%+ out 171 of 391 counties affected
Above 600,000 out nationally 11 hours Jan 3, 2022, 6:00 AM onward
States affected 37 VA · NC · GA · SC · MD
Hardest-hit county 100%out Franklin, VA · 5,397 customers

Hour by hour

The country, in the dark

Customers without power across the US, two days either side. The shaded band is the time the national total stayed above 600,000.

0 200k 400k 600k 800k 1.0M Jan 1Jan 2Jan 3Jan 4Jan 5Jan 6 Peak 841k

By state

Where it hit

StatePeak outShareCounties 10%+
Virginia 396,689 14% 41
North Carolina 283,432 6% 22
Georgia 260,057 7% 45
South Carolina 165,608 7% 17
Maryland 83,595 7% 3
Tennessee 80,228 7% 11
Oregon 60,351 11% 5
Washington 29,542 2% 2
Alaska 26,785 16% 2
Florida 21,704 2% 1
Illinois 19,789 18% 1
Alabama 19,180 4% 1
Louisiana 18,692 4% 3
Mississippi 11,109 13% 3
Texas 10,905 3% 1
Massachusetts 9,801 5% 0
California 8,821 10% 3
West Virginia 8,603 24% 3
Delaware 7,499 2% 0
Indiana 5,940 2% 0

State peaks add each county's own peak, which may fall at different hours, so they can exceed the true simultaneous total.

By county

The hardest hit