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2016 Chesapeake city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Chesapeake city, VA went without power for an average of 12.5 hours, a total of 1.3M customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 272nd of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Chesapeake city, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 8, 2016 22:30 | October 13, 2016 09:00 | 4d 10h | 37,135 | 1.1M |
| 2 | September 3, 2016 04:00 | September 5, 2016 02:00 | 1d 22h | 15,556 | 72K |
| 3 | March 26, 2016 15:45 | March 27, 2016 11:30 | 19h 45m | 6,951 | 7,375 |
| 4 | July 26, 2016 19:15 | July 28, 2016 02:30 | 1d 7h | 5,363 | 6,535 |
| 5 | August 10, 2016 00:00 | August 10, 2016 08:30 | 8h 30m | 4,457 | 2,541 |
| 6 | December 18, 2016 15:00 | December 19, 2016 22:45 | 1d 7h | 3,890 | 15K |
| 7 | December 25, 2016 13:00 | December 25, 2016 16:00 | 3h | 3,030 | 6,372 |
| 8 | September 19, 2016 19:45 | September 20, 2016 03:45 | 8h | 3,023 | 1,126 |
| 9 | February 26, 2016 16:30 | February 26, 2016 17:45 | 1h 15m | 2,961 | 985 |
| 10 | July 6, 2016 12:00 | July 7, 2016 10:00 | 22h | 2,878 | 2,877 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 116 reached 100+ customers, 22 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Chesapeake city reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 104,567 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. Chesapeake city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chesapeake city, VA annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/virginia/chesapeake-city