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

Power outage history

Cumberland County Virginia

42hours

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

7th most of 123 in Virginia 6.5× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Michael · Oct 11, 2018 100% of customers out · 90% back in 4.5 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 42h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 11.0 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 3hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 7.1days Feb 13, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 76% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2018 3.5 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 3,604 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 Cumberland'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

2018 was the worst well-recorded year, at 3.5 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Cumberland, hours without power per customer

CumberlandUS median countyVirginia average
0 20 40 60 80 100 8.6 ’15 10 ’16 16 ’17 84 ’18 15 ’19 11 ’20 61 ’21 77 ’22 11 ’23 12 ’24 67 ’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
Oct 11, 2018 Hurricane Michael 3,604 100% 4.9 d 4.5 d 213k
Jan 3, 2022 Winter storm 3,590 100% 6.5 d 4.3 d 195k
Feb 13, 2021 Ice storm 2,845 79% 7.1 d 3.3 d 186k
Feb 12, 2025 Winter storm 3,063 85% 3.5 d 34 h 128k
Mar 2, 2018 No storm report 1,676 47% 2.5 d 19 h 38k
Dec 8, 2017 Winter storm 2,273 63% 2.2 d 26 h 35k
Jan 6, 2025 No storm report 2,561 71% 33 h 27 h 30k
Apr 14, 2025 Thunderstorms 2,055 57% 25 h 1.8 h 29k
Dec 23, 2022 No storm report 2,508 70% 34 h 15 h 25k
Jan 13, 2019 Winter storm 1,928 54% 34 h 12 h 24k
Dec 9, 2018 Winter storm 1,261 35% 21 h 19 h 17k
Feb 16, 2025 Windstorm 1,160 32% 32 h 22 h 14k

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 +8h 90% by +26h

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

  • Winter storm 32%
  • No storm on record 24%
  • Tropical storm 20%
  • Ice storm 16%
  • Thunderstorms 7.8%
  • Windstorm 1.2%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Cumberland

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
Central Virginia Electric Coop Cooperative 796 501 5.03 16.2 35k

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 3,604 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 →