The other ledger for Virginia: electricity demand doubling by 2039 on the state's own utility forecast, 159,765 homes missing at the bottom of the rental market, $55.2B of documented water-system needs — and, unusually, bridges in genuinely good shape (3% poor), printed exactly as measured. Every figure is sourced, dated, and labeled — counted, modeled, or assessed.
How to read this page: the class chip on every measure is the honesty label. Counted = an inspection or enumeration record. Modeled = a study's projection or risk score — printed with the modeler's name. Assessed = a structured survey of required investment — needs as documented, not measurements of decay. Figures keep the form their source gave them; years are printed on every measure.
Click any category to expand it — every measure with its figure, what it means in plain language, and its source.
Food access is dated, and labeled dated. No current statewide USDA Atlas low-access population total for Virginia could be found in summary form. The count printed (1,423,483 residents, 17.8%) is from the 2014 Virginia Food Desert Task Force report and carries its year everywhere; Feeding America's modeled food-insecurity rate (11.1%, 2022 data) is the current-need companion. A fresh Atlas figure would require a direct data pull, and the page does not fake one.
Dams: shares stay shares. The poor-condition figure for high-hazard dams is published only as a percentage (10.0% of 429) via an industry analysis of National Inventory of Dams data; it was not multiplied into a count. Dam totals differ across sources — NID (~2,900 total / 429 high-hazard), state regulation (~360 high-hazard) and DCR (>2,500 / 527 high + likely-high) — and the measures name their source rather than reconciling the three into one number.
Power. Berkeley Lab's Queued Up publishes PJM-regional, not Virginia-state, queue totals in its public summaries — no Virginia queue figure is printed. The category is carried by Dominion Energy Virginia's own IRP forecast (forecaster named; a utility profits from building) and ASCE's D energy grade.
Hospitals. The Sheps-definition closure count (2) and the state Joint Commission's at-risk count (13 of 36) were both accessed via WHRO's reporting on the official study, so both are flagged news-flagged in the data even though the underlying bodies are official. Chartis percentages arrive via NRHA's state fact sheet.
Traffic geography. INRIX hours are metro figures. The Washington, D.C. urban area (which includes Northern Virginia) leads this category; ASCE's ≈39-hour statewide urban average is the companion. No Richmond or Hampton Roads INRIX figure was published in the materials checked.
Two classifications normalized (editorial, disclosed). NLIHC's Gap shortage is classed 'modeled' here, as on every other state page in this ledger, and TRIP's pavement-condition share likewise — two researcher-level labels were harmonized so the same evidence wears the same chip in every state.