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

Power outage history

Scott County Virginia

31hours

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

20th most of 123 in Virginia 4.7× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Helene · Sep 27, 2024 100% of customers out · 90% back in 6.1 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 31h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 3.8 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 4hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 10.4days Hurricane Helene, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 71% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2024 4.6 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 11,959 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 Scott'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

2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 4.6 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Scott, hours without power per customer

ScottUS median countyVirginia average
0 50 100 150 6.7 ’15 8.8 ’16 5.8 ’17 55 ’18 11 ’19 9.1 ’20 12 ’21 22 ’22 16 ’23 110 ’24 9.7 ’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
Sep 25, 2024 Hurricane Helene 11,959 100% 10.4 d 6.1 d 1.2M
Dec 9, 2018 Winter storm 10,353 87% 5.2 d 3.6 d 483k
Aug 5, 2022 Thunderstorms 2,454 21% 2.2 d 37 h 39k
Jun 17, 2022 No storm report 1,663 14% 2.1 d 24 h 37k
Jul 21, 2018 No storm report 2,890 24% 36 h 14 h 34k
Apr 1, 2023 No storm report 3,094 26% 29 h 21 h 30k
Nov 22, 2024 Winter storm 7,579 63% 5.0 h 3.0 h 26k
May 16, 2023 Thunderstorms 2,179 18% 27 h 23 h 26k
Mar 3, 2023 No storm report 890 7% 2.2 d 43 h 23k
Jul 29, 2023 Thunderstorms 2,048 17% 2.0 d 40 h 22k
May 17, 2025 No storm report 1,110 9% 42 h 37 h 18k
Jan 11, 2020 Thunderstorms 1,072 9% 45 h 38 h 17k

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 +8h 90% by +38h

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

  • Tropical storm 45%
  • No storm on record 29%
  • Winter storm 20%
  • Thunderstorms 5.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Scott

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
Appalachian Power Co Investor Owned 1,116 328 2.36 17.2 468k
Kentucky Utilities Co Investor Owned 327 142 1.90 15.3 23k
Bristol Virginia Utilities Municipal 25 25 0.24 11.6 14k
Powell Valley Electric Coop Cooperative 180 162 4.59 12.1 6.6k

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+

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 11,959 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 →