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2015 Powhatan County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Powhatan County, VA went without power for an average of 4.6 hours, a total of 59K customer-hours (Virginia average 2.7 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 127 Virginia counties and 615th 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 Powhatan 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 | December 24, 2015 03:30 | December 25, 2015 09:30 | 1d 6h | 3,541 | 1,558 |
| 2 | September 4, 2015 06:45 | September 4, 2015 16:00 | 9h 15m | 3,505 | 3,116 |
| 3 | June 27, 2015 09:30 | June 28, 2015 06:45 | 21h 15m | 2,615 | 2,189 |
| 4 | October 2, 2015 15:30 | October 2, 2015 23:00 | 7h 30m | 1,798 | 10K |
| 5 | September 2, 2015 19:15 | September 3, 2015 17:45 | 22h 30m | 1,306 | 1,170 |
| 6 | June 25, 2015 23:45 | June 27, 2015 05:30 | 1d 5h | 1,120 | 10K |
| 7 | December 27, 2015 17:30 | December 27, 2015 21:15 | 3h 45m | 933 | 871 |
| 8 | June 20, 2015 22:45 | June 22, 2015 22:30 | 1d 23h | 926 | 15K |
| 9 | August 5, 2015 04:30 | August 5, 2015 09:00 | 4h 30m | 657 | 508 |
| 10 | June 1, 2015 20:30 | June 2, 2015 13:15 | 16h 45m | 397 | 2,465 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 25 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Powhatan 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southside Electric Coop, Inc | 2015 | 6.0 hrs | 2.14 | 3.1 hrs | 1.70 |
| 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 ÷ 12,936 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. Powhatan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Powhatan 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/powhatan-county