Power outage history
Greene County Virginia
8.4hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
76th most of 123 in Virginia 1.3× the national median
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 Greene's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2018 was the worst well-recorded year, at 34 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Greene, hours without power per customer
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 | 9,316 | 90% | 3.8 d | 7.8 h | 248k |
| Feb 6, 2025 | Ice storm | 7,523 | 72% | 2.4 d | 11 h | 49k |
| Jan 4, 2022 | No storm report | 1,694 | 16% | 4.9 d | 2.7 d | 46k |
| Mar 5, 2018 | No storm report | 1,264 | 12% | 45 h | 44 h | 29k |
| May 14, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 4,168 | 40% | 23 h | 12 h | 21k |
| Oct 29, 2017 | No storm report | 5,272 | 51% | 19 h | 5.5 h | 19k |
| Jan 23, 2025 | Winter storm | 5,118 | 49% | 7.0 h | 5.0 h | 16k |
| Jul 22, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 5,009 | 48% | 11 h | 8.5 h | 15k |
| Nov 15, 2018 | Winter storm | 1,082 | 10% | 29 h | 27 h | 12k |
| May 26, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 1,903 | 18% | 19 h | 14 h | 11k |
| May 19, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 1,502 | 14% | 12 h | 9.5 h | 9.6k |
| Aug 18, 2017 | No storm report | 2,008 | 19% | 9.2 h | 3.2 h | 8.8k |
| Jul 30, 2019 | No storm report | 6,319 | 61% | 5.2 h | 1.0 h | 8.2k |
| Oct 31, 2019 | Flooding | 840 | 8% | 20 h | 16 h | 8.2k |
| Oct 17, 2018 | No storm report | 3,224 | 31% | 3.5 h | 3.2 h | 8.0k |
| Apr 10, 2020 | No storm report | 7,085 | 68% | 3.2 h | 1.2 h | 7.0k |
| Sep 2, 2024 | No storm report | 2,911 | 28% | 4.2 h | 4.2 h | 6.5k |
| Aug 4, 2020 | Hurricane Isaias | 6,142 | 59% | 1.0 h | 30 min | 6.1k |
| Jul 18, 2019 | No storm report | 6,016 | 58% | 4.5 h | 4.5 h | 5.6k |
| Jan 11, 2020 | No storm report | 3,601 | 35% | 5.5 h | 1.5 h | 5.2k |
| May 31, 2018 | Flooding | 645 | 6% | 10 h | 5.5 h | 5.1k |
| Oct 12, 2018 | Hurricane Michael | 534 | 5% | 14 h | 3.5 h | 5.1k |
| Jul 17, 2019 | No storm report | 2,623 | 25% | 4.2 h | 30 min | 4.9k |
| Aug 8, 2024 | Hurricane Debby | 707 | 7% | 21 h | 11 h | 4.9k |
| Jul 17, 2025 | No storm report | 1,431 | 14% | 3.5 h | 5.8 h | 4.8k |
| Oct 9, 2016 | No storm report | 902 | 9% | 9.8 h | 8.5 h | 4.2k |
| Jun 22, 2020 | No storm report | 6,080 | 59% | 48 min | 48 min | 4.2k |
| Jul 10, 2022 | No storm report | 6,041 | 58% | 1.0 h | 1.2 h | 3.9k |
| Mar 1, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 5,123 | 49% | 3.2 h | 30 min | 3.8k |
| Jun 8, 2025 | No storm report | 2,937 | 28% | 5.0 h | 1.2 h | 3.5k |
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.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Greene from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Windstorm 42%
- No storm on record 33%
- Ice storm 8.2%
- Thunderstorms 6.9%
- Winter storm 5.4%
- Tropical storm 2.8%
- Flooding 2.5%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Greene
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 |
| Shenandoah Valley Elec Coop | Cooperative | 391 | 258 | 2.78 | 14.5 | 87k |
| 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
- Albemarle 22 h
- Madison 15 h
- Orange 10.0 h
- Greene (this county) 8.4 h
- Page 7.4 h
- Rockingham 6.8 h
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 10,381 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 →