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

Power outage history

Surry County Virginia

9.2hours

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

72nd most of 123 in Virginia 1.4× the national median

Worst outage on record Mar 2, 2018 69% of customers out · 90% back in 4.5 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 9.2h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 8.5 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 2.4days Hurricane Isaias, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 45% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2018 14 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 2,816 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 Surry'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 14 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Surry, hours without power per customer

SurryUS median countyVirginia average
0 5 10 15 20 1.8 ’15 6.3 ’16 3.4 ’17 14 ’18 14 ’19 6.0 ’20 6.3 ’21 6.4 ’22 10 ’23 12 ’24 5.1 ’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 2, 2018 Windstorm 1,932 69% 40 h 4.5 h 20k
Apr 15, 2019 Thunderstorms 2,320 82% 11 h 6.0 h 15k
Jan 9, 2024 No storm report 1,068 38% 25 h 20 h 11k
Dec 9, 2018 Winter storm 891 32% 16 h 9.0 h 9.3k
Sep 23, 2023 Tropical Storm Ophelia 1,106 39% 10 h 6.5 h 7.7k
Mar 11, 2024 No storm report 1,305 46% 6.5 h 10 h 7.4k
Aug 4, 2020 Hurricane Isaias 126 4% 2.4 d – 6.3k
Oct 9, 2016 Hurricane Matthew 448 16% 14 h 8.5 h 6.3k
Oct 11, 2018 Hurricane Michael 316 11% 19 h 2.2 h 5.1k
Dec 23, 2022 No storm report 709 25% 14 h 3.2 h 4.2k
Jul 15, 2023 No storm report 541 19% 6.8 h 6.5 h 3.1k
Nov 1, 2019 Thunderstorms 951 34% 8.0 h 4.2 h 3.1k

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 +8h

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

  • No storm on record 55%
  • Thunderstorms 13%
  • Tropical storm 12%
  • Windstorm 10%
  • Winter storm 6.3%
  • Flooding 1.9%
  • Ice storm 1.1%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Surry

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
Community Electric Coop VA 240 219 1.93 11.3 165k
Prince George Electric Coop Cooperative 383 222 – 13.5 11k

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 2,816 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 →