County annual report · FIPS 51041
2016 Chesterfield County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Chesterfield County, VA went without power for an average of 6.5 hours, a total of 1.0M customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 80th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 529th 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 Chesterfield County, 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 | July 18, 2016 11:30 | July 26, 2016 09:30 | 7d 22h | 27,047 | 385K |
| 2 | October 8, 2016 22:30 | October 12, 2016 21:45 | 3d 23h | 13,697 | 128K |
| 3 | June 16, 2016 08:00 | June 19, 2016 03:45 | 2d 19h | 8,155 | 72K |
| 4 | April 29, 2016 02:15 | April 29, 2016 17:15 | 15h | 6,273 | 9,956 |
| 5 | September 28, 2016 18:45 | September 30, 2016 10:00 | 1d 15h | 5,797 | 34K |
| 6 | August 30, 2016 11:45 | September 1, 2016 09:30 | 1d 21h | 5,241 | 9,554 |
| 7 | February 16, 2016 05:00 | February 16, 2016 23:15 | 18h 15m | 4,870 | 5,223 |
| 8 | December 10, 2016 05:00 | December 10, 2016 17:00 | 12h | 3,893 | 2,227 |
| 9 | December 6, 2016 08:45 | December 6, 2016 13:45 | 5h | 3,891 | 5,741 |
| 10 | October 30, 2016 00:45 | October 30, 2016 11:45 | 11h | 3,599 | 2,836 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 173 reached 100+ customers, 46 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 Chesterfield County 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southside Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 4.5 hrs | 2.18 | 3.9 hrs | 2.02 |
| 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 ÷ 155,017 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. Chesterfield County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chesterfield County, 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/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2016/virginia/chesterfield-county