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2015 Essex County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Essex County, VA went without power for an average of 4.6 hours, a total of 24K customer-hours (Virginia average 2.7 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 127 Virginia counties and 620th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Essex County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 11, 2015 21:00 | August 12, 2015 10:30 | 13h 30m | 4,102 | 4,717 |
| 2 | June 19, 2015 01:00 | June 19, 2015 02:45 | 1h 45m | 1,122 | 306 |
| 3 | April 27, 2015 19:45 | April 28, 2015 04:45 | 9h | 844 | 2,042 |
| 4 | November 23, 2015 05:15 | November 23, 2015 06:30 | 1h 15m | 544 | 468 |
| 5 | February 23, 2015 18:30 | February 23, 2015 21:00 | 2h 30m | 495 | 962 |
| 6 | June 21, 2015 01:45 | June 21, 2015 23:15 | 21h 30m | 465 | 3,726 |
| 7 | October 9, 2015 20:00 | October 9, 2015 20:30 | 30m | 412 | 206 |
| 8 | July 30, 2015 22:00 | July 31, 2015 06:00 | 8h | 347 | 665 |
| 9 | September 17, 2015 13:30 | September 17, 2015 20:15 | 6h 45m | 332 | 1,705 |
| 10 | October 4, 2015 11:15 | October 4, 2015 12:45 | 1h 30m | 310 | 465 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 26 reached 100+ customers, 2 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Essex County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2015 | 2.3 hrs | 1.33 | 1.7 hrs | 1.24 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Virginia's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,226 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Essex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Essex County, VA annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/virginia/essex-county