Power Out Map
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Power outage history

Goochland County Virginia

18hours

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

49th most of 123 in Virginia 2.7× the national median

Worst outage on record Jan 3, 2022 61% of customers out · 90% back in 5.1 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 18h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 4.4 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 7hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 7.0days Jan 3, 2022, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 70% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2022 2.3 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 12,608 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 Goochland'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 2.3 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Goochland, hours without power per customer

GoochlandUS median countyVirginia average
0 20 40 60 80 9.5 ’15 33 ’16 6.9 ’17 25 ’18 8.5 ’19 6.7 ’20 19 ’21 55 ’22 4.9 ’23 5.5 ’24 18 ’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
Jan 3, 2022 Winter storm 7,661 61% 7.0 d 5.1 d 484k
Jun 16, 2016 Thunderstorms 9,592 76% 3.7 d 2.6 d 314k
Feb 13, 2021 Ice storm 6,378 51% 3.2 d 46 h 192k
Oct 11, 2018 Hurricane Michael 5,846 46% 3.0 d 43 h 128k
Mar 2, 2018 No storm report 3,419 27% 2.7 d 27 h 85k
Jun 20, 2015 Tropical Storm Bill 6,567 52% 45 h 30 h 83k
Jun 16, 2022 Tornadoes 3,656 29% 46 h 41 h 72k
Feb 12, 2025 Winter storm 3,731 30% 37 h 25 h 40k
Jan 6, 2025 Winter storm 5,217 41% 33 h 9.0 h 36k
Jun 19, 2025 Thunderstorms 4,162 33% 28 h 21 h 29k
Jul 25, 2022 No storm report 5,247 42% 19 h 13 h 26k
Dec 8, 2017 Winter storm 1,078 9% 38 h 23 h 24k

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 +30h

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

  • Winter storm 36%
  • No storm on record 30%
  • Ice storm 12%
  • Tropical storm 9.4%
  • Thunderstorms 8.7%
  • Tornadoes 4.4%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Goochland

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
Rappahannock Electric Coop Cooperative 428 220 2.50 15.5 173k
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 12,608 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 →