2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Power Outage Report

In 2019, the average U.S. Virgin Islands customer went without power for about 47.2 hours (a territory, not ranked with the states) (US average 4.6 hours). Figures from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, including major storm days.

Avg hrs / customer

47.2

vs prior year

no earlier year loaded

Customer-hours out

2.7M

Peak customers out

40,469

across the state at once

EAGLE-I coverage

100%

of VI customers

Counties reporting

U.S. Virgin Islands year over year

Average hours without power per customer. Line: EAGLE-I coverage, share of customers tracked (right axis).

Month by month, 2019

Customer-hours without power across U.S. Virgin Islands; August was the worst.

CSV JSON

All 3 U.S. Virgin Islands counties, 2019

Ranked by average hours without power per customer. Each county links to its annual report.

CSV JSON

#	County	Hrs / customer	Customer-hours	Customers	Peak out	Events
1	St. Thomas Island	75.3	1.7M	22,725	22,353	334
2	St. Croix Island	26.5	819K	30,899	22,853	330
3	St. John Island	-	160K	-	2,836	75

Biggest U.S. Virgin Islands outages of 2019

Up to 25 county outage episodes with the most customers out at once.

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#	County	Started (UTC)	Ended (UTC)	Duration	Peak out	Customer-hours
1	St. Croix Island, VI	September 15, 2019 10:45	September 15, 2019 18:00	7h 15m	22,853	122K
2	St. Croix Island, VI	August 19, 2019 00:00	August 19, 2019 01:45	1h 45m	22,808	32K
3	St. Croix Island, VI	July 29, 2019 03:00	July 29, 2019 05:45	2h 45m	22,505	37K
4	St. Croix Island, VI	August 9, 2019 12:15	August 9, 2019 13:45	1h 30m	22,500	31K
5	St. Croix Island, VI	March 27, 2019 19:00	March 28, 2019 03:45	8h 45m	22,430	51K
6	St. Thomas Island, VI	November 6, 2019 00:00	November 6, 2019 01:45	1h 45m	22,353	26K
7	St. Thomas Island, VI	November 10, 2019 23:45	November 11, 2019 05:30	5h 45m	22,351	82K
8	St. Thomas Island, VI	September 3, 2019 14:15	September 5, 2019 14:45	2d	22,001	51K
9	St. Thomas Island, VI	September 10, 2019 18:30	September 11, 2019 04:15	9h 45m	22,001	32K
10	St. Thomas Island, VI	September 5, 2019 18:00	September 8, 2019 19:00	3d 1h	21,979	180K
11	St. Thomas Island, VI	August 28, 2019 16:15	September 1, 2019 19:45	4d 3h	21,799	398K
12	St. Thomas Island, VI	June 25, 2019 05:30	June 25, 2019 07:15	1h 45m	19,961	27K
13	St. Thomas Island, VI	June 6, 2019 19:15	June 6, 2019 21:30	2h 15m	19,949	30K
14	St. Croix Island, VI	November 13, 2019 14:00	November 13, 2019 22:00	8h	19,730	38K
15	St. Thomas Island, VI	November 11, 2019 15:45	November 11, 2019 23:15	7h 30m	19,519	53K
16	St. Thomas Island, VI	April 7, 2019 11:45	April 8, 2019 04:15	16h 30m	19,487	127K
17	St. Thomas Island, VI	November 15, 2019 19:00	November 15, 2019 21:00	2h	19,249	22K
18	St. Croix Island, VI	April 29, 2019 13:30	May 2, 2019 04:15	2d 14h	19,230	43K
19	St. Thomas Island, VI	August 24, 2019 12:30	August 25, 2019 02:00	13h 30m	18,299	23K
20	St. Thomas Island, VI	July 26, 2019 19:15	July 27, 2019 13:00	17h 45m	17,373	105K
21	St. Thomas Island, VI	June 27, 2019 19:00	June 28, 2019 13:45	18h 45m	17,365	35K
22	St. Thomas Island, VI	September 9, 2019 10:00	September 9, 2019 12:45	2h 45m	17,109	20K
23	St. Croix Island, VI	August 27, 2019 12:30	August 29, 2019 00:15	1d 11h	16,860	122K
24	St. Thomas Island, VI	September 14, 2019 11:00	September 18, 2019 00:00	3d 13h	16,849	78K
25	St. Thomas Island, VI	August 26, 2019 16:30	August 26, 2019 17:45	1h 15m	15,575	12K

EAGLE-I tracked about 100% of U.S. Virgin Islands's electricity customers in 2019; outages at utilities it does not see are not counted. Hours per customer divide outage customer-minutes by modeled county customers.

U.S. Virgin Islands by year:2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2018 2017 2016 2015

Other territories in 2019:

Part of the 2019 US Power Outage Report.

Data from DOE EAGLE-I, every source we read.