– 0% of Henrico out 0 customers out in Virginia

Power outage history

Henrico County Virginia

10hours

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

67th most of 123 in Virginia 1.6× the national median

Worst outage on record Jun 18, 2016 77% of customers out · 90% back in 46 hours

Hours without power, average customer per year 10h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h

Major outages a year 1.5 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers

Typical time to restore 90% 24hours Median across major outages, from the peak

Longest single outage 3.9days Jun 16, 2016, over 1% of customers out

Outage hours on storm days 82% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here

Worst year 2018 21 hours without power, average customer

Electricity customers 150,139 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 Henrico'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

2018 was the worst well-recorded year, at 21 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Henrico, hours without power per customer

HenricoUS median countyVirginia average

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
Jun 16, 2016	Thunderstorms	116,190	77%	3.9 d	46 h	4.0M
Oct 11, 2018	Hurricane Michael	66,946	45%	3.5 d	2.4 d	1.7M
Feb 13, 2021	Ice storm	25,493	17%	2.5 d	27 h	698k
Feb 12, 2025	Winter storm	49,026	33%	42 h	28 h	679k
Sep 7, 2023	Thunderstorms	56,291	37%	41 h	20 h	563k
Mar 2, 2018	Windstorm	34,870	23%	2.2 d	27 h	554k
Jun 19, 2025	Thunderstorms	38,293	26%	30 h	25 h	441k
Jul 27, 2025	Thunderstorms	39,577	26%	25 h	21 h	353k
Jun 22, 2022	Thunderstorms	25,904	17%	27 h	22 h	250k
Dec 8, 2017	Winter storm	8,037	5%	40 h	35 h	157k
Jan 6, 2025	Winter storm	16,604	11%	23 h	11 h	142k
Aug 18, 2024	Thunderstorms	15,235	10%	32 h	22 h	141k
Feb 7, 2020	No storm report	15,154	10%	26 h	26 h	123k
Mar 14, 2017	No storm report	19,243	13%	16 h	11 h	105k
May 14, 2018	Thunderstorms	17,103	11%	16 h	15 h	94k
Feb 16, 2025	Thunderstorms	12,364	8%	24 h	18 h	89k
Apr 15, 2019	Thunderstorms	10,591	7%	16 h	15 h	89k
Jun 20, 2015	No storm report	11,420	8%	16 h	17 h	77k
Aug 11, 2021	No storm report	8,940	6%	17 h	18 h	75k
Jun 12, 2022	Thunderstorms	14,219	9%	13 h	13 h	70k
Sep 17, 2018	Hurricane Florence	7,890	5%	21 h	21 h	69k
Jan 3, 2022	Winter storm	7,632	5%	17 h	22 h	68k
Jul 25, 2022	No storm report	9,740	6%	16 h	17 h	68k
Apr 15, 2024	Thunderstorms	11,002	7%	16 h	20 h	62k
Dec 23, 2022	No storm report	9,417	6%	16 h	25 h	61k
Jul 18, 2025	Thunderstorms	7,609	5%	20 h	21 h	58k
May 31, 2019	Thunderstorms	9,354	6%	15 h	16 h	56k
Jul 26, 2016	Thunderstorms	7,935	5%	15 h	16 h	50k
Jan 9, 2024	Thunderstorms	5,782	4%	22 h	21 h	49k
Oct 9, 2016	Hurricane Matthew	6,623	4%	19 h	21 h	48k

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

Thunderstorms 32%
Tropical storm 22%
No storm on record 18%
Winter storm 12%
Ice storm 8.5%
Windstorm 6.7%
Flooding 0.7%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Henrico

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

Charles City 32 h
Powhatan 21 h
New Kent 18 h
Goochland 18 h
Henrico (this county) 10 h
Hanover 7.8 h
Chesterfield 7.4 h
Richmond 0.9 h

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 150,139 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 →