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

Power outage history

Radford City Virginia

The outage record here is too thin for a reliable yearly average. Raw events are listed below.

Worst outage on record Mar 25, 2018 3% of customers out · lasted 2.0 days
Hours without power, average customer per year –h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year – Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% – Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 2.0days Mar 25, 2018, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 67% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year –
Electricity customers 8,199 Estimated from population · 0 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 Radford's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

Radford, hours without power per customer

RadfordUS median countyVirginia average
0 2 4 6 8 10 ’15 ’16 ’17 ’18 ’19 ’20 ’21 ’22 ’23 ’24 ’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 25, 2018 Winter storm 261 3% 2.0 d – 4.8k
Dec 23, 2022 Windstorm 264 3% 7.5 h – 2.0k
Dec 24, 2020 Winter storm 180 2% 11 h – 1.9k
Apr 25, 2018 No storm report 261 3% 4.5 h – 1.2k
Jun 17, 2022 No storm report 238 3% 4.0 h – 928
Oct 20, 2018 Windstorm 258 3% 2.0 h – 516
Dec 10, 2024 No storm report 183 2% 2.8 h – 503
Dec 6, 2022 No storm report 180 2% 2.8 h – 495
Jul 25, 2021 No storm report 262 3% 1.5 h – 393
May 18, 2025 No storm report 276 3% 1.0 h – 276
Jul 15, 2022 No storm report 262 3% 1.0 h – 262
Oct 5, 2022 No storm report 183 2% 1.2 h – 229

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

  • Winter storm 49%
  • No storm on record 33%
  • Windstorm 18%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Radford

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
City of Radford VA – – – 12.1 73k

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 8,199 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 →