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

Power outage history

Poquoson City Virginia

7.4hours

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

86th most of 123 in Virginia close to the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Michael · Oct 12, 2018 95% of customers out · 90% back in 18 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 7.4h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 4.4 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 2.5days Hurricane Matthew, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 41% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2018 19 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 4,482 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 Poquoson'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 19 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Poquoson, hours without power per customer

PoquosonUS median countyVirginia average
0 5 10 15 20 25 1.6 ’15 11 ’16 2.7 ’17 19 ’18 4.0 ’19 12 ’20 4.5 ’21 2.9 ’22 5.5 ’23 3.7 ’24 7.3 ’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 12, 2018 Hurricane Michael 4,270 95% 42 h 18 h 57k
Aug 4, 2020 Hurricane Isaias 3,158 70% 2.2 d 30 h 40k
Oct 8, 2016 Hurricane Matthew 1,982 44% 2.5 d 29 h 36k
Sep 25, 2021 No storm report 927 21% 16 h 20 h 11k
May 16, 2025 No storm report 2,015 45% 8.8 h 9.8 h 9.4k
Sep 3, 2016 Hurricane Hermine 1,234 28% 11 h 5.5 h 8.1k
Sep 22, 2023 No storm report 3,759 84% 3.0 h 2.5 h 7.2k
Dec 20, 2025 No storm report 947 21% 11 h 9.0 h 6.5k
Jun 29, 2019 No storm report 3,636 81% 1.8 h 1.2 h 6.4k
May 26, 2018 No storm report 908 20% 8.5 h 8.0 h 5.9k
Feb 18, 2018 No storm report 842 19% 9.2 h 2.2 h 5.5k
Oct 9, 2021 No storm report 3,714 83% 5.0 h 1.0 h 5.5k

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 +10h

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

  • No storm on record 59%
  • Tropical storm 40%
  • Windstorm 0.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Poquoson

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

  • Poquoson (this county) 7.4 h
  • York 6.9 h
  • Hampton 5.2 h

Across Virginia

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Virginia counties →

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 4,482 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 →