Power Out Map
– 0% of Lunenburg out 0 customers out in Virginia

Power outage history

Lunenburg County Virginia

45hours

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

5th most of 123 in Virginia 6.9× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 13, 2021 100% of customers out · 90% back in 11.2 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 45h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 7.0 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 12.6days Feb 13, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 84% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 8.1 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 4,827 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 Lunenburg'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

2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 8.1 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Lunenburg, hours without power per customer

LunenburgUS median countyVirginia average
0 50 100 150 200 250 3.3 ’15 8.0 ’16 10 ’17 109 ’18 18 ’19 7.3 ’20 194 ’21 8.5 ’22 4.2 ’23 6.2 ’24 15 ’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 Ice storm 4,827 100% 12.6 d 11.2 d 908k
Oct 11, 2018 Hurricane Michael 4,827 100% 6.1 d 5.0 d 364k
Mar 2, 2018 No storm report 2,774 57% 2.4 d 23 h 68k
Jan 13, 2019 Winter storm 3,010 62% 44 h 4.2 h 41k
Feb 12, 2025 No storm report 1,749 36% 2.6 d 47 h 40k
Dec 9, 2018 Winter storm 2,935 61% 2.2 d 19 h 33k
Dec 8, 2017 Winter storm 1,750 36% 2.2 d 21 h 32k
Jun 21, 2016 No storm report 1,940 40% 6.0 h 6.0 h 12k
Feb 7, 2020 No storm report 1,092 23% 25 h 4.8 h 9.7k
Dec 23, 2022 No storm report 895 19% 30 h 3.0 h 9.0k
Jan 3, 2022 Winter storm 420 9% 33 h 48 min 6.8k
Apr 15, 2019 Thunderstorms 1,088 23% 9.8 h 8.0 h 6.4k

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 +22h

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

  • Ice storm 54%
  • Tropical storm 22%
  • No storm on record 16%
  • Winter storm 5.0%
  • Thunderstorms 3.3%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Lunenburg

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
Southside Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 2,127 324 4.45 15.5 57k
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+

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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 4,827 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 →