Power Out Map
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Power outage history

Halifax County Virginia

20hours

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

41st most of 123 in Virginia 3.0× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 13, 2021 69% of customers out · 90% back in 5.3 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 20h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 4.9 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 4hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 6.7days Feb 13, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 81% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 2.2 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 15,791 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 Halifax'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 2.2 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Halifax, hours without power per customer

HalifaxUS median countyVirginia average
0 20 40 60 80 6.5 ’15 16 ’16 8.6 ’17 46 ’18 11 ’19 9.6 ’20 54 ’21 11 ’22 6.5 ’23 9.3 ’24 9.9 ’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
Feb 13, 2021 Winter storm 10,851 69% 6.7 d 5.3 d 787k
Oct 11, 2018 Hurricane Michael 7,324 46% 5.0 d 4.6 d 461k
Jul 8, 2016 Thunderstorms 11,819 75% 28 h 23 h 121k
Mar 2, 2018 Windstorm 5,792 37% 47 h 28 h 77k
Dec 9, 2018 Winter storm 2,301 15% 2.1 d 43 h 57k
Feb 11, 2025 Winter storm 1,908 12% 2.5 d 48 h 51k
Sep 30, 2022 Hurricane Ian 3,975 25% 27 h 17 h 47k
Jan 13, 2019 Winter storm 2,466 16% 36 h 27 h 46k
Oct 29, 2020 Hurricane Zeta 3,187 20% 30 h 25 h 33k
Dec 8, 2017 Winter storm 2,137 14% 37 h 30 h 32k
Jan 7, 2018 No storm report 2,961 19% 28 h 23 h 27k
Jun 16, 2016 Thunderstorms 3,514 22% 17 h 12 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 +10h 90% by +28h

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

  • Winter storm 43%
  • Tropical storm 25%
  • No storm on record 19%
  • Thunderstorms 7.7%
  • Windstorm 3.7%
  • Flooding 1.2%
  • Tornadoes 0.5%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Halifax

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
City of Danville Municipal – – – 15.8 38k
Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative Cooperative 721 244 2.83 14.3 30k

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 15,791 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 →