Power Out Map
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Power outage history

Amelia County Virginia

38hours

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

11th most of 123 in Virginia 5.7× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 14, 2021 100% of customers out · 90% back in 8.5 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 38h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 10.3 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 12.4days Feb 13, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 87% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 4.5 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 5,545 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 Amelia'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

2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 4.5 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Amelia, hours without power per customer

AmeliaUS median countyVirginia average
0 50 100 150 1.5 ’15 19 ’16 17 ’17 92 ’18 14 ’19 9.5 ’20 108 ’21 24 ’22 6.9 ’23 4.1 ’24 42 ’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
Feb 13, 2021 Ice storm 5,545 100% 12.4 d 8.5 d 573k
Oct 11, 2018 Hurricane Michael 5,545 100% 6.0 d 4.4 d 402k
Feb 12, 2025 Winter storm 5,474 99% 3.6 d 2.1 d 135k
Jan 3, 2022 Winter storm 3,625 65% 3.3 d 43 h 82k
Dec 8, 2017 Winter storm 3,792 68% 43 h 22 h 54k
Jan 13, 2019 Winter storm 2,302 42% 37 h 5.8 h 48k
Jan 6, 2025 Winter storm 3,236 58% 34 h 25 h 35k
Mar 2, 2018 No storm report 2,673 48% 38 h 24 h 30k
Mar 2, 2016 No storm report 5,252 95% 5.8 h 7.8 h 29k
Dec 9, 2018 Winter storm 2,286 41% 26 h 5.8 h 25k
Jan 22, 2016 Winter storm 5,545 100% 21 h 1.2 h 19k
Dec 23, 2022 No storm report 2,374 43% 25 h 5.8 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 +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 Amelia from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Ice storm 36%
  • Tropical storm 27%
  • Winter storm 20%
  • No storm on record 14%
  • Thunderstorms 3.5%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Amelia

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
Southside Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 2,127 324 4.45 15.5 57k

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 5,545 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 →