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2016 Dinwiddie County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Dinwiddie County, VA went without power for an average of 8.2 hours, a total of 103K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 128 Virginia counties and 427th 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 Dinwiddie 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 | November 28, 2016 14:30 | November 28, 2016 16:30 | 2h | 4,240 | 8,480 |
| 2 | May 3, 2016 18:00 | May 3, 2016 19:15 | 1h 15m | 2,326 | 635 |
| 3 | June 16, 2016 21:15 | June 17, 2016 17:30 | 20h 15m | 2,059 | 7,726 |
| 4 | March 14, 2016 19:30 | March 15, 2016 03:45 | 8h 15m | 2,035 | 1,239 |
| 5 | October 8, 2016 22:30 | October 10, 2016 21:00 | 1d 22h | 1,894 | 7,214 |
| 6 | February 4, 2016 04:15 | February 4, 2016 13:15 | 9h | 1,798 | 7,453 |
| 7 | October 11, 2016 08:15 | October 11, 2016 12:30 | 4h 15m | 1,774 | 1,847 |
| 8 | April 12, 2016 00:00 | April 12, 2016 08:00 | 8h | 1,730 | 3,143 |
| 9 | November 19, 2016 22:15 | November 20, 2016 00:30 | 2h 15m | 1,496 | 1,320 |
| 10 | February 19, 2016 16:30 | February 19, 2016 20:15 | 3h 45m | 1,487 | 375 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 75 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 Dinwiddie 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 |
| Prince George Electric Coop | 2016 | 2.5 hrs | - | 2.1 hrs | - |
| 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 ÷ 12,472 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. Dinwiddie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dinwiddie 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/dinwiddie-county