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

Power outage history

Middlesex County Virginia

27hours

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

23rd most of 123 in Virginia 4.1× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Michael · Oct 12, 2018 100% of customers out · 90% back in 3.6 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 27h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 10.6 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 4.5days Hurricane Michael, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 65% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2018 3.8 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 4,296 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 Middlesex'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 3.8 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Middlesex, hours without power per customer

MiddlesexUS median countyVirginia average
0 20 40 60 80 6.3 ’15 14 ’16 8.4 ’17 92 ’18 14 ’19 25 ’20 17 ’21 25 ’22 13 ’23 21 ’24 10.0 ’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 4,296 100% 4.5 d 3.6 d 240k
Mar 2, 2018 Windstorm 2,969 69% 3.3 d 2.3 d 79k
Aug 4, 2020 Hurricane Isaias 4,296 100% 38 h 26 h 49k
Aug 3, 2024 Thunderstorms 3,640 85% 25 h 12 h 45k
May 21, 2022 Thunderstorms 3,844 89% 11 h 6.5 h 42k
Feb 13, 2021 Ice storm 1,238 29% 2.1 d 8.2 h 28k
Feb 24, 2016 Tornadoes 2,025 47% 22 h 17 h 26k
Jul 22, 2019 Thunderstorms 3,502 82% 17 h 3.8 h 25k
Jan 3, 2022 Winter storm 4,296 100% 34 h 13 h 21k
Jun 21, 2023 No storm report 1,688 39% 30 h 22 h 19k
Jun 17, 2022 No storm report 2,242 52% 22 h 16 h 13k
Dec 9, 2018 Winter storm 671 16% 42 h 38 h 12k

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

  • No storm on record 35%
  • Tropical storm 33%
  • Thunderstorms 15%
  • Windstorm 8.9%
  • Winter storm 4.6%
  • Ice storm 3.1%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Middlesex

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+

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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 4,296 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 →