Power outage history
Manassas Park City Virginia
0.4hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
94% below the national median
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 Manassas Park's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 29 min for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Manassas Park, hours without power per customer
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 7, 2023 | No storm report | 3,419 | 43% | 11 h | 3.8 h | 24k |
| Mar 28, 2016 | No storm report | 1,055 | 13% | 2.2 h | 1.8 h | 2.0k |
| Jul 13, 2022 | No storm report | 1,249 | 16% | 1.2 h | 8.8 h | 1.6k |
| Jun 26, 2025 | No storm report | 853 | 11% | 5.8 h | 1.0 h | 1.3k |
| Sep 3, 2025 | No storm report | 240 | 3% | 4.8 h | – | 1.1k |
| Mar 21, 2016 | No storm report | 1,871 | 23% | 30 min | 30 min | 936 |
| May 31, 2024 | No storm report | 516 | 6% | 1.8 h | 1.8 h | 903 |
| Nov 15, 2020 | No storm report | 475 | 6% | 1.2 h | 5.0 h | 594 |
| Aug 13, 2019 | No storm report | 261 | 3% | 2.5 h | – | 559 |
| Dec 15, 2023 | No storm report | 1,026 | 13% | 30 min | 30 min | 513 |
| Jun 20, 2015 | Tropical Storm Bill | 189 | 2% | 3.2 h | – | 512 |
| Jun 21, 2024 | No storm report | 1,014 | 13% | 30 min | 30 min | 507 |
| Jan 13, 2019 | No storm report | 313 | 4% | 1.2 h | – | 391 |
| Jul 16, 2025 | No storm report | 177 | 2% | 2.0 h | – | 352 |
| Jun 23, 2015 | No storm report | 172 | 2% | 1.5 h | – | 220 |
| May 21, 2022 | No storm report | 172 | 2% | 1.8 h | – | 215 |
| Aug 23, 2025 | No storm report | 132 | 2% | 1.5 h | – | 198 |
| Jul 3, 2022 | No storm report | 134 | 2% | 1.5 h | – | 189 |
| May 2, 2017 | No storm report | 145 | 2% | 1.2 h | – | 181 |
| Dec 20, 2020 | No storm report | 133 | 2% | 1.2 h | – | 166 |
| Nov 22, 2022 | No storm report | 233 | 3% | 48 min | – | 148 |
| Aug 8, 2023 | No storm report | 116 | 1% | 1.8 h | – | 145 |
| Jul 29, 2023 | No storm report | 193 | 2% | 48 min | – | 139 |
| Jan 17, 2016 | No storm report | 267 | 3% | 48 min | – | 137 |
| Feb 3, 2023 | No storm report | 102 | 1% | 1.2 h | – | 128 |
| Mar 1, 2024 | No storm report | 115 | 1% | 1.0 h | – | 115 |
| Jul 21, 2020 | No storm report | 96 | 1% | 1.0 h | – | 96 |
| Sep 19, 2016 | No storm report | 125 | 2% | 48 min | – | 89 |
| May 22, 2017 | No storm report | 108 | 1% | 48 min | – | 81 |
| Aug 9, 2016 | No storm report | 152 | 2% | 30 min | – | 76 |
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 Manassas Park from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 100%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Manassas Park
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 |
| Northern Virginia Elec Coop | Cooperative | 94 | 43 | 0.98 | 12.6 | 169k |
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
- Prince William 1.8 h
- Manassas Park (this county) 0.4 h
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 8,015 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 →