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2015 Richmond County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Richmond County, VA went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Virginia average 2.7 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 127 Virginia counties and 878th 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 Richmond 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 4, 2015 22:30 | August 5, 2015 01:15 | 2h 45m | 1,920 | 2,421 |
| 2 | July 29, 2015 11:00 | July 29, 2015 15:00 | 4h | 1,088 | 1,081 |
| 3 | April 27, 2015 20:30 | April 27, 2015 21:45 | 1h 15m | 813 | 1,013 |
| 4 | December 1, 2015 13:00 | December 1, 2015 15:15 | 2h 15m | 726 | 355 |
| 5 | June 13, 2015 17:15 | June 14, 2015 00:00 | 6h 45m | 655 | 3,277 |
| 6 | October 3, 2015 19:45 | October 4, 2015 00:45 | 5h | 524 | 652 |
| 7 | February 25, 2015 17:15 | February 25, 2015 18:30 | 1h 15m | 313 | 391 |
| 8 | February 15, 2015 00:00 | February 15, 2015 04:30 | 4h 30m | 203 | 240 |
| 9 | April 14, 2015 13:00 | April 14, 2015 13:30 | 30m | 177 | 78 |
| 10 | June 19, 2015 01:15 | June 19, 2015 14:00 | 12h 45m | 137 | 409 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 12 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 Richmond 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Northern Neck Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 4,030 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. Richmond County has data for 2015–2017, 2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richmond 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/virginia/richmond-county