Power Out Map
– 0% of Falls Church out 0 customers out in Virginia

Power outage history

Falls Church City Virginia

7.5hours

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

85th most of 123 in Virginia close to the national median

Worst outage on record Mar 2, 2018 32% of customers out · 90% back in 30 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 7.5h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 3.9 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 3.4days Mar 2, 2018, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 43% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 16 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 6,786 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 Falls Church'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

2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 16 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Falls Church, hours without power per customer

Falls ChurchUS median countyVirginia average
0 5 10 15 20 2.0 ’15 2.9 ’16 2.4 ’17 12 ’18 9.8 ’19 3.9 ’20 16 ’21 4.0 ’22 8.5 ’23 1.4 ’24 4.9 ’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
Mar 2, 2018 Windstorm 2,199 32% 3.4 d 30 h 54k
Aug 10, 2021 Thunderstorms 5,829 86% 28 h 5.8 h 48k
May 23, 2019 No storm report 2,521 37% 2.2 d 21 h 46k
Jul 28, 2021 No storm report 2,468 36% 17 h 17 h 29k
Jul 29, 2023 Thunderstorms 1,427 21% 23 h 18 h 18k
Apr 22, 2023 No storm report 3,238 48% 18 h 18 h 17k
Jul 1, 2021 Thunderstorms 1,617 24% 16 h 14 h 12k
Jun 19, 2025 No storm report 966 14% 29 h 26 h 11k
Jan 31, 2019 Winter storm 1,822 27% 6.0 h 2.0 h 8.8k
Feb 12, 2017 Windstorm 1,353 20% 12 h 12 h 7.9k
Apr 3, 2016 Windstorm 473 7% 25 h 17 h 7.8k
Mar 6, 2018 No storm report 2,042 30% 15 h 9.5 h 7.6k

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 +18h

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

  • No storm on record 58%
  • Thunderstorms 21%
  • Windstorm 16%
  • Winter storm 4.3%
  • Tropical storm 1.3%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Falls Church

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

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 6,786 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 →