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

Power outage history

Dinwiddie County Virginia

27hours

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

24th most of 123 in Virginia 4.1× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 13, 2021 100% of customers out · 90% back in 10.1 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 27h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 6.3 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 12.3days Feb 13, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 82% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 5.4 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 12,472 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 Dinwiddie'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

2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 5.4 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Dinwiddie, hours without power per customer

DinwiddieUS median countyVirginia average
0 50 100 150 4.1 ’15 8.0 ’16 5.8 ’17 38 ’18 7.5 ’19 8.8 ’20 129 ’21 12 ’22 7.4 ’23 6.9 ’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 12,472 100% 12.3 d 10.1 d 1.5M
Oct 11, 2018 Hurricane Michael 11,908 95% 4.8 d 2.5 d 307k
Dec 9, 2018 Winter storm 7,846 63% 43 h 6.0 h 57k
Jun 22, 2022 Thunderstorms 8,375 67% 28 h 9.0 h 42k
Mar 2, 2018 No storm report 1,441 12% 26 h 2.8 h 32k
Aug 3, 2024 Thunderstorms 7,123 57% 21 h 5.0 h 32k
Nov 29, 2023 No storm report 1,445 12% 22 h 30 min 29k
Aug 4, 2020 Hurricane Isaias 4,511 36% 13 h 7.5 h 20k
Jul 21, 2020 No storm report 2,539 20% 21 h 20 h 20k
Dec 23, 2022 No storm report 2,225 18% 24 h 4.0 h 17k
Sep 25, 2022 Thunderstorms 1,458 12% 20 h 20 h 15k
Feb 7, 2020 No storm report 2,829 23% 26 h 15 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 +4h 90% by +10h

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

  • Ice storm 60%
  • No storm on record 18%
  • Tropical storm 14%
  • Thunderstorms 6.2%
  • Winter storm 2.3%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Dinwiddie

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
Prince George Electric Coop Cooperative 383 222 – 13.5 11k

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 12,472 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 →