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

Power outage history

Danville City Virginia

7.4hours

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

87th most of 123 in Virginia close to the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Zeta · Oct 29, 2020 36% of customers out · 90% back in 30 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 7.4h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 2.6 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 6hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 2.4days Feb 13, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 51% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2022 13 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 35,902 EAGLE-I 2024 count · 7 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 Danville'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 13 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Danville, hours without power per customer

DanvilleUS median countyVirginia average
0 5 10 15 20 ’15 ’16 ’18 1.0 ’19 11 ’20 12 ’21 13 ’22 9.3 ’23 3.0 ’24 1.5 ’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 29, 2020 Hurricane Zeta 12,945 36% 34 h 30 h 236k
Feb 13, 2021 Winter storm 7,684 21% 2.4 d 2.1 d 177k
Jun 16, 2023 Thunderstorms 6,366 18% 27 h 27 h 126k
Aug 30, 2021 No storm report 13,622 38% 19 h 18 h 99k
Sep 30, 2022 Hurricane Ian 6,126 17% 31 h 14 h 96k
Nov 18, 2020 No storm report 1,922 5% 2.0 d 24 h 92k
Jun 17, 2022 No storm report 5,579 16% 26 h 25 h 74k
Jul 2, 2023 Thunderstorms 8,622 24% 27 h 10 h 62k
Jan 3, 2022 Winter storm 2,997 8% 24 h 22 h 33k
Nov 12, 2022 No storm report 4,303 12% 7.2 h 3.2 h 31k
Dec 23, 2022 No storm report 4,081 11% 13 h 7.0 h 30k
Oct 24, 2022 No storm report 1,105 3% 25 h – 27k

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

  • No storm on record 49%
  • Tropical storm 23%
  • Thunderstorms 14%
  • Winter storm 13%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Danville

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
City of Danville Municipal – – – 15.8 38k

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 35,902 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 →