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

Power outage history

Charlottesville City Virginia

6.9hours

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

93rd most of 123 in Virginia close to the national median

Worst outage on record Jan 3, 2022 65% of customers out · 90% back in 2.2 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 6.9h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 5.9 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 4.3days Jan 3, 2022, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 50% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2022 18 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 20,605 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 Charlottesville'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 18 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Charlottesville, hours without power per customer

CharlottesvilleUS median countyVirginia average
0 5 10 15 20 25 1.5 ’15 2.3 ’16 3.4 ’17 10 ’18 8.2 ’19 3.9 ’20 3.1 ’21 18 ’22 3.2 ’23 3.7 ’24 4.4 ’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 3, 2022 Winter storm 13,315 65% 4.3 d 2.2 d 299k
Mar 2, 2018 Windstorm 3,280 16% 2.4 d 4.0 h 75k
Jun 2, 2022 No storm report 5,430 26% 18 h 11 h 32k
Dec 16, 2020 Winter storm 2,461 12% 26 h 19 h 28k
Feb 16, 2025 No storm report 5,714 28% 24 h 7.8 h 24k
Jun 17, 2019 No storm report 4,560 22% 26 h 7.2 h 21k
Nov 16, 2018 No storm report 7,346 36% 6.5 h 4.2 h 20k
Jul 11, 2019 No storm report 5,227 25% 10 h 9.8 h 20k
Jul 22, 2019 No storm report 4,055 20% 15 h 12 h 19k
Jul 21, 2019 Heat 3,738 18% 14 h 2.8 h 13k
Jun 24, 2018 No storm report 5,146 25% 13 h 5.2 h 13k
May 26, 2024 No storm report 2,534 12% 13 h 9.5 h 13k

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 +4h 90% by +12h

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

  • No storm on record 50%
  • Winter storm 38%
  • Windstorm 8.1%
  • Tropical storm 1.4%
  • Heat 1.4%
  • Thunderstorms 0.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Charlottesville

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

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

  • Albemarle 22 h
  • Charlottesville (this county) 6.9 h

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 20,605 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 →