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

Power outage history

Caroline County Virginia

7.3hours

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

90th most of 123 in Virginia close to the national median

Worst outage on record Jan 6, 2022 29% of customers out · 90% back in 3.5 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 7.3h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 1.6 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 5.8days Jan 5, 2022, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 53% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2022 19 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 14,714 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 Caroline'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

2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 19 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Caroline, hours without power per customer

CarolineUS median countyVirginia average
0 5 10 15 20 25 4.2 ’15 7.0 ’16 6.0 ’17 14 ’18 5.6 ’19 3.1 ’20 8.4 ’21 19 ’22 2.0 ’23 2.9 ’24 3.2 ’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
Jan 5, 2022 No storm report 4,325 29% 5.8 d 3.5 d 166k
May 14, 2018 Thunderstorms 5,653 38% 36 h 25 h 95k
Feb 13, 2021 Ice storm 3,917 27% 2.2 d 25 h 90k
Mar 2, 2018 Windstorm 3,469 24% 2.2 d 48 min 51k
Jun 20, 2015 Thunderstorms 3,597 24% 22 h 14 h 27k
Apr 18, 2019 No storm report 10,612 72% 2.5 h 7.8 h 26k
Apr 3, 2016 No storm report 4,048 28% 17 h 10 h 25k
Jun 22, 2022 Thunderstorms 3,361 23% 25 h 19 h 25k
Jun 2, 2022 Thunderstorms 3,589 24% 15 h 9.2 h 21k
Mar 14, 2017 Winter storm 3,461 24% 15 h 6.8 h 20k
Jun 18, 2019 Thunderstorms 2,145 15% 20 h 12 h 19k
Jun 17, 2022 Thunderstorms 2,519 17% 26 h 17 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 +6h 90% by +16h

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

  • No storm on record 47%
  • Thunderstorms 30%
  • Ice storm 12%
  • Windstorm 6.8%
  • Tropical storm 3.1%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Caroline

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

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 14,714 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 →