County annual report · FIPS 51057
2016 Essex County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Essex County, VA went without power for an average of 11.4 hours, a total of 60K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 128 Virginia counties and 304th 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 Essex 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 | August 19, 2016 09:30 | August 19, 2016 11:00 | 1h 30m | 2,444 | 1,541 |
| 2 | April 3, 2016 04:15 | April 4, 2016 12:00 | 1d 7h | 1,829 | 11K |
| 3 | July 28, 2016 22:00 | July 30, 2016 02:15 | 1d 4h | 1,826 | 8,047 |
| 4 | February 24, 2016 23:45 | February 26, 2016 23:00 | 1d 23h | 1,620 | 20K |
| 5 | August 12, 2016 11:45 | August 12, 2016 12:00 | 15m | 760 | 190 |
| 6 | May 3, 2016 21:15 | May 3, 2016 23:45 | 2h 30m | 758 | 950 |
| 7 | June 12, 2016 16:45 | June 13, 2016 01:45 | 9h | 743 | 1,785 |
| 8 | February 9, 2016 19:30 | February 9, 2016 22:30 | 3h | 586 | 595 |
| 9 | October 8, 2016 23:15 | October 9, 2016 02:15 | 3h | 520 | 624 |
| 10 | May 4, 2016 22:00 | May 4, 2016 23:15 | 1h 15m | 401 | 149 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 30 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Essex 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2016 | 3.5 hrs | 1.70 | 2.6 hrs | 1.54 |
| 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 ÷ 5,226 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. Essex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Essex 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/essex-county