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

Power outage history

Madison County Virginia

15hours

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

55th most of 123 in Virginia 2.2× the national median

Worst outage on record Mar 2, 2018 61% of customers out · 90% back in 3.9 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 15h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 6.0 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 6.5days Jan 3, 2022, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 79% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2018 40 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 6,952 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 Madison'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 40 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Madison, hours without power per customer

MadisonUS median countyVirginia average
0 10 20 30 40 50 1.9 ’15 4.2 ’16 7.2 ’17 40 ’18 6.5 ’19 5.3 ’20 3.3 ’21 25 ’22 5.6 ’23 12 ’24 21 ’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
Mar 2, 2018 Windstorm 4,249 61% 3.8 d 3.9 d 177k
Jan 3, 2022 Winter storm 2,356 34% 6.5 d 3.2 d 99k
Feb 6, 2025 Ice storm 4,137 60% 2.6 d 27 h 60k
May 26, 2024 Thunderstorms 5,225 75% 26 h 3.2 h 32k
May 14, 2018 Thunderstorms 2,304 33% 45 h 31 h 29k
Jul 12, 2022 Thunderstorms 2,450 35% 26 h 16 h 25k
Mar 5, 2018 No storm report 1,018 15% 42 h 38 h 22k
Nov 15, 2018 Winter storm 1,463 21% 31 h 25 h 19k
Oct 29, 2017 No storm report 2,020 29% 20 h 12 h 19k
Feb 16, 2025 Windstorm 2,038 29% 26 h 16 h 16k
Dec 16, 2020 Winter storm 1,714 25% 28 h 15 h 12k
Jul 17, 2025 No storm report 5,756 83% 3.5 h 3.2 h 9.4k

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 +6h 90% by +16h

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

  • Windstorm 29%
  • No storm on record 21%
  • Thunderstorms 20%
  • Winter storm 19%
  • Ice storm 8.5%
  • Flooding 1.4%
  • Tropical storm 1.1%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Madison

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
Rappahannock Electric Coop Cooperative 428 220 2.50 15.5 173k

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 6,952 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 →