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

Power outage history

Nottoway County Virginia

30hours

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

21st most of 123 in Virginia 4.5× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 13, 2021 82% of customers out · 90% back in 10.4 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 30h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 2.3 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 12.6days Feb 13, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 92% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 5.2 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 6,864 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 Nottoway'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

2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 5.2 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Nottoway, hours without power per customer

NottowayUS median countyVirginia average
0 50 100 150 1.4 ’15 5.6 ’16 5.9 ’17 75 ’18 10 ’19 6.7 ’20 126 ’21 4.4 ’22 1.7 ’23 2.3 ’24 11 ’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 5,624 82% 12.6 d 10.4 d 844k
Oct 11, 2018 Hurricane Michael 6,864 100% 6.1 d 4.7 d 455k
Feb 12, 2025 Winter storm 1,809 26% 2.9 d 48 h 48k
Jan 13, 2019 Winter storm 2,386 35% 39 h 12 min 46k
Mar 2, 2018 No storm report 1,061 15% 2.0 d 32 h 18k
Dec 8, 2017 Winter storm 1,108 16% 45 h 20 h 16k
Jul 28, 2020 No storm report 1,650 24% 13 h 12 h 11k
Feb 7, 2020 No storm report 775 11% 29 h 25 h 8.7k
Dec 9, 2018 Winter storm 457 7% 24 h 11 h 7.7k
Oct 29, 2020 Hurricane Zeta 955 14% 20 h 19 h 7.1k
Apr 15, 2018 Thunderstorms 1,266 18% 11 h 7.5 h 6.8k
Dec 23, 2022 No storm report 659 10% 27 h 20 h 6.7k

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 +20h

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

  • Ice storm 54%
  • Tropical storm 30%
  • No storm on record 7.9%
  • Winter storm 6.7%
  • Thunderstorms 1.8%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Nottoway

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
Town of Blackstone VA – – – – 21k

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 6,864 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 →