Power Out Map
– 0% of Isle of Wight out 0 customers out in Virginia

Power outage history

Isle of Wight County Virginia

9.6hours

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

69th most of 123 in Virginia 1.5× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Isaias · Aug 4, 2020 47% of customers out · 90% back in 31 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 9.6h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 6.9 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 3hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 2.9days Hurricane Matthew, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 50% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 15 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 10,757 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 Isle of Wight'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

2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 15 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Isle of Wight, hours without power per customer

Isle of WightUS median countyVirginia average
0 5 10 15 20 2.2 ’15 8.8 ’16 3.4 ’17 13 ’18 4.9 ’19 15 ’20 7.1 ’21 9.3 ’22 8.9 ’23 11 ’24 8.7 ’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
Aug 4, 2020 Hurricane Isaias 5,036 47% 2.3 d 31 h 86k
Jan 9, 2024 No storm report 3,934 37% 26 h 20 h 44k
Oct 12, 2018 Hurricane Michael 1,918 18% 45 h 38 h 36k
Jun 22, 2018 Thunderstorms 4,316 40% 28 h 15 h 35k
Oct 8, 2016 Hurricane Matthew 1,865 17% 2.9 d 45 h 33k
Jun 16, 2023 Tornadoes 7,539 70% 12 h 6.8 h 31k
Aug 14, 2021 Thunderstorms 7,015 65% 19 h 4.5 h 27k
Sep 30, 2022 Hurricane Ian 1,843 17% 24 h 20 h 25k
May 16, 2025 No storm report 2,426 23% 22 h 20 h 24k
Mar 2, 2018 Windstorm 2,733 25% 42 h 15 h 17k
Sep 22, 2023 Tropical Storm Ophelia 4,665 43% 14 h 1.0 h 15k
May 21, 2022 No storm report 1,212 11% 19 h 17 h 14k

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

  • No storm on record 50%
  • Tropical storm 25%
  • Thunderstorms 14%
  • Tornadoes 4.4%
  • Windstorm 2.4%
  • Winter storm 2.3%
  • Flooding 1.1%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Isle of Wight

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
Community Electric Coop VA 240 219 1.93 11.3 165k
City of Franklin VA – – – 12.5 67k
Prince George Electric Coop Cooperative 383 222 – 13.5 11k

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 10,757 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 →