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

Power outage history

Chesterfield County Virginia

7.4hours

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

88th most of 123 in Virginia close to the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 13, 2021 37% of customers out · 90% back in 2.1 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 7.4h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 1.0 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 21hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 3.3days Feb 13, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 84% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2018 15 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 155,017 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 Chesterfield'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

2018 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.

Chesterfield, hours without power per customer

ChesterfieldUS median countyVirginia average
0 5 10 15 20 2.4 ’15 6.5 ’16 3.3 ’17 15 ’18 3.9 ’19 4.1 ’20 14 ’21 5.3 ’22 6.8 ’23 3.1 ’24 7.3 ’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
Feb 13, 2021 Ice storm 57,010 37% 3.3 d 2.1 d 1.7M
Oct 11, 2018 Hurricane Michael 51,921 33% 3.3 d 2.2 d 1.3M
Feb 12, 2025 Winter storm 38,220 25% 37 h 21 h 446k
Sep 7, 2023 Thunderstorms 36,577 24% 26 h 21 h 390k
Jul 19, 2016 Thunderstorms 27,047 17% 31 h 21 h 344k
Jun 22, 2022 Thunderstorms 25,332 16% 26 h 23 h 183k
Mar 2, 2018 No storm report 13,730 9% 32 h 25 h 173k
Apr 15, 2019 Thunderstorms 18,823 12% 17 h 9.2 h 135k
May 14, 2018 Thunderstorms 19,818 13% 16 h 14 h 128k
Jun 20, 2015 Thunderstorms 12,399 8% 19 h 19 h 108k
Oct 9, 2016 Hurricane Matthew 13,697 9% 23 h 12 h 99k
Jun 16, 2023 Thunderstorms 12,231 8% 20 h 20 h 78k

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

  • Ice storm 27%
  • Tropical storm 22%
  • Thunderstorms 21%
  • No storm on record 16%
  • Winter storm 11%
  • Windstorm 1.7%
  • Flooding 1.5%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Chesterfield

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 155,017 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 →