Power Out Map
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Power outage history

James City County Virginia

7.2hours

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

91st most of 123 in Virginia close to the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Michael · Oct 12, 2018 57% of customers out · 90% back in 44 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 7.2h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 4.8 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 2.8days Hurricane Michael, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 71% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2018 31 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 32,899 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 James City'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

2018 was the worst well-recorded year, at 31 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

James City, hours without power per customer

James CityUS median countyVirginia average
0 10 20 30 40 2.2 ’15 9.8 ’16 2.4 ’17 31 ’18 5.3 ’19 5.2 ’20 2.7 ’21 4.5 ’22 2.6 ’23 4.2 ’24 2.8 ’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
Oct 11, 2018 Hurricane Michael 18,602 57% 2.8 d 44 h 587k
Dec 9, 2018 Winter storm 21,010 64% 47 h 24 h 258k
Oct 9, 2016 Hurricane Matthew 12,624 38% 36 h 22 h 220k
Aug 4, 2020 Hurricane Isaias 9,301 28% 17 h 5.5 h 73k
Mar 2, 2018 Windstorm 7,699 23% 25 h 19 h 57k
Jul 22, 2019 Thunderstorms 4,614 14% 20 h 16 h 31k
Sep 25, 2022 Thunderstorms 2,992 9% 13 h 13 h 24k
Apr 15, 2019 Thunderstorms 2,732 8% 10 h 6.2 h 23k
Jul 15, 2024 No storm report 4,330 13% 13 h 5.8 h 22k
Oct 31, 2019 No storm report 4,152 13% 14 h 9.0 h 21k
Jun 27, 2015 No storm report 5,657 17% 5.5 h 1.8 h 20k
Jun 19, 2025 No storm report 6,410 19% 5.5 h 4.2 h 19k

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 +10h

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

  • Tropical storm 42%
  • No storm on record 29%
  • Winter storm 16%
  • Thunderstorms 9.0%
  • Windstorm 3.6%
  • Flooding 0.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving James City

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

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 32,899 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 →